Lance E. Mason

TL;DR: The National Council for the Social Studies Position Statement on Media Literacy argues that media literacy can facilitate participatory democracy if students' interest in media is harnessed as mentioned in this paper, and proposes a critical review that advances an alternative direction for media literacy in which learning for participatory democracies includes analyzing not only medium, messages, and content but also med...

TL;DR: For example, the authors explores the significance of education for 21st-century education, a term used by proponents of curricular standardization and digital ubiquity in classrooms, and argues for a broader purpose of education.

TL;DR: This paper examined the use of metaphors in the social studies section of the journal Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education and identified five prominent categories of metaphor within the discourse: manual labor metaphors, construction/building metaphors, mechanistic metaphors, technology as biological life/agent metaphors, and journey metaphors.

TL;DR: The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) position statement on Curriculum Guidelines for Social Studies Teaching and Learning provides a conceptual outline for contemporary social studies curriculum, calling for social studies learning that is meaningful, integrated, value-based, challenging, and active as discussed by the authors.