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Using Technology as a Tool for Inquiry and Civic Engagement in an Interdisciplinary Middle School Project on Global Children's Issues
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, Portland State University Graduate School of Education, United States

EdMedia + Innovate Learning, in Vienna, Austria ISBN 978-1-880094-65-5 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC

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The purpose of this paper is to explore how technology was used as a tool for inquiry and civic engagement in an urban middle school in the United States through an interdisciplinary school-wide project. Specific goals of this project were to: (a) implement an interdisciplinary school-wide project with the entire faculty and all the students at the middle school; (b) integrate technology as a tool for inquiry; (c) raise student awareness of children’s issues around the world and in the local community and (d) engage students in higher order thinking and civic learning.

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Thieman, G. (2008). Using Technology as a Tool for Inquiry and Civic Engagement in an Interdisciplinary Middle School Project on Global Children's Issues. In J. Luca & E. Weippl (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2008--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (pp. 532-537). Vienna, Austria: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved December 12, 2019 from .

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