In a time when as a field social studies struggles for relevance, social studies educators need to recognize and promote how they are uniquely qualified and situated to enable young people to effectively use mobile technologies as a citizen, learner, and member of a democratic society in a global setting and to explore the civic, economic, and social implications of such technologies across time and place. Helping students make sense of all the information, new environments, and ways of being, requires grounding them in the experiences of those in the past and other civic and cultural settings.
In turn, such settings are reshaping how children and youth are able to act as citizens and consumers.
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The use of social media to create multiple online and blended economic, political, and social settings with a global reach requires rethinking how to prepare children and youth to participate in such settings. The proliferation of online data raises questions about critical media literacy and an understanding of how such data is used to make economic and political decisions. While emerging technologies offer PreK-16 students and teachers new learning tools, the implications for how and what social studies students learn is much richer and deeper than learning the nuances of a new mobile device, in several ways. 1 Given the breadth, depth and rapidity of technological change, educators often have focused on a facet of technology-such as how technology can support student learning-at the expense, however, of fully appreciating and realizing the scope of technology's impact. Cisco predicts that by 2016 there will be 10 billion mobile devices in use worldwide and that the amount of additional data movement will be about three times more than all online traffic for 2012. Students today are maturing in a world where mobile connectivity is interactive, instantaneous, and ubiquitous, which offers educators the challenge and opportunity of preparing digital citizens within a global setting. Revised and approved by NCSS Board of Directors 2013 I.
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