Discussion #7 Chapter 12

What are the "history wars," and what are their implications for technology use in history?
The history wars is the controversy that people are having over whether they should teach traditional history or if they should incorporate other things into the history lesson such as technology. The thing that they feel that technology would help with is showing the students by using things like virtual trips or simulations how things are in places that they normally wouldn’t be able to visit or like go back in time and see what I would be like to live in a different era.

With students' ready access to information on the Internet, what might be the concerns of social studies teachers?
Some of the things that I feel are concerns for the social studies teachers is that some of the students may use the internet as a quick fix to get the answers they have instead of looking in the book or paying attention to you in class. So if they do this they may not go to a website that is all factual. I know there are a lot of websites out there that anyone can change them. So if they go to a website like that they are likely to get false information. That would be the biggest concern for me as a teacher as well as what type of websites are they likely to stumble upon while you are in a computer lab or doing some type of research so have a list of websites that they can use so they aren’t likely to have any problems with websites.