Re-discovering and re-creating African American historical accounts through mobile apps The role of mobile technology in history education》.pdf

The Journal of Social Studies Research 38 (2014) 173 –188 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect The Journal of Social Studies Research journal homepage: /locate/jssr Re-discovering and re-creating African American historical accounts through mobile apps: The role of mobile technology in history education LaGarrett J. King a,n, Christina Gardner-McCune b, Penelope Vargas c, Yerika Jimenez d a Secondary Social Studies Education, Eugene T. Moore School of Education, Clemson University, USA b School of Computing, Human-Centered Computing Division, Clemson University, USA c Educational Foundations, Eugene T. Moore School of Education, Clemson University, USA d Department of Computer Science, Kean University, USA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: This paper describes a case study of a program called WATCH: Workshop for Actively Accepted 13 December 2013 Thinking Computationally and Historically. The focus of the program and this paper was Available online 16 April 2014 on using mobile application development to promote historical thinking using a planta- Keywords: tion site visit as the focus of inquiry. WATCH was delivered during an academic Mobile technology enrichment youth program at a major research university in the Southeast and served Historical thinking a total of 30 African American and Latino high school students from low socio-economic African American students backgrounds. Through the theoretical framework of historica