This book reconceptualizes social studies teaching and learning in ways that will help prepare students to live in "new times" – prepared for new forms of labor, equipped to handle new and emerging technologies and function, and able to understand different perspectives to participate in an increasingly diverse, multicultural global society.

Introduction: Social Studies as New Literacies for Living in a Global Society Part I: Reconceptualizing Social Studies: Frameworks and Tools 1. The Role of Social Studies in "New Times" 2. Teaching and Learning in New Times: Challenges and Possibilities 3. Web-based Technology Tools to Guide Inquiry Part II: Exploring and Examining Challenges and Possibilities: Windows into Classrooms 4. Collaboratively Negotiating the Challenge of Locating Reliable, Readable, and Useful Sources With Rindi Baildon 5. Examining the Claims and Credibility of a Complicated Multimodal Web-based Text 6. The Challenge of Synthesizing Web-based Information in an Inquiry-based Social Studies Classroom 7. Part I: Identifying What We Know and What We Don’t Know: Progressive Knowledge Building in an Inquiry Community With Anne Elsener 8. Part II: Identifying What We Know and What We Don’t Know: Progressive Knowledge Building in an Inquiry Community With Anne Elsener Part III: Synthesis and Implications 9. Social Studies as New Literacies: Relational Cosmopolitanism in the Classroom