Digital Archives by Kids
Having elementary students and teachers create digital archives with primary sources. We worked with the Ronald Ryder Dickey archive that contained thousands of digitized images of flora, fauna and urban dwellings in Los Angeles from the early 1900’s. Students took photos from same locations in the early 2000’s and analyzed changes in urban developments.
Contributors
Anne Gilliland, Ken Daniswieski, Bill Landis
Related Research
Kafai, Y. B. & Gilliland-Swetland, A. (2001). The integration of historical sources into elementary science education. Science Education, 85, 341–379.
Gilliland-Swetland, A., Kafai, Y. B., & Landis, W. (2000). Application of Dublin Core metadata in the description of digital primary sources in elementary school classrooms. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(2), 193–201.
Gilliland-Swetland, A., Kafai, Y. B., & Landis, W. (2000). The integration of digitized primary sources in elementary school classrooms: A case study of teachers’ perspectives. Archivaria, 48, 89–116. Link to PDF
Kafai, Y. B. & Bates, M. (1997). Internet web-searching instruction in the elementary classroom: Building a foundation for information literacy. School Media Library Quarterly, 37(9), 18–22. Top Twenty Paper in 1997 by the American Library Association. Link to PDF