ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on various types of technologies and the ways that teachers can effectively utilize the valuable resources to enhance social studies instruction in secondary classrooms. Technology advancements of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have greatly altered the world, changing how people interact and access information. Like all areas of education in the era of accountability, advocates for the inclusion and increased presence of technology in the classroom have created specific standards and benchmarks to guide instruction. Media literacy is particularly important for secondary students in schools because it revolves around trying to understand the intentions and motives implanted within the media. Some people may consider media literacy as the ability to effectively navigate and utilize the Internet. The purpose of visual literacy is to help students understand, evaluate, and create meaning from images.
