ABSTRACT

The Executive Office of the California History-Social Science Project and the Technology Projects office of Center X at UCLA have developed a project in which statewide history teachers form an online, self generating, problem solving community for the purposes of rewriting existing history and social science curricula for the integration of technology to support student historical thinking and understanding. Participants focus on collaboration and the problem solving process of instructional design in an online (Nexus) collaborative environment. The end product for the participants are several units of practice which reflect historical thinking and understanding and the use of technology to support those processes.