Tech-infused social studies methods

I'm getting a little traction on what I think a "next step" is for tech integration in social studies methods.

First, here's my perception of the current state-of-the-field: ACCESS. Social studies teacher-educators, and social studies teachers, are using tech in instruction/instructional prep to access info: looking for it, gathering it, marking resources on the web that can be re-purposed and used in instruction, etc. It's basically the web as library or repository of learning aids.

So what's next? I'm still murky, but here are my threads.

• The role of tech had better not be to add value to the distributor (e.g., a lesson plan on the web vs. on paper--much better for the person wishing to share it, but for the end user it's all the same or slightly worse than having it on paper). Instead, the role of the tech should be to add value to the end-user BEYOND being able to access it--it adds flexibility (re-mixable) or it links out to other useful resources (organization?). For example, I'm thinking of Wise Pockets--tech is just a delivery mechanism for the info. In contrast, the math applets on teacherlink let the teacher do something that couldn't be done otherwise--these manipulatives can't exist on paper.
• If students are using tech, it's not parallel play but collaborative. If the students' use of tech is to individually access info or do a manipulative, it reinforces the at-your-desk paradigm of education, reduces the discussion and social learning that can make for powerful teaching. So if you're considering a parallel play thing, do it either as a whole class or structure it as groupwork, or push it off into homework (but provide scaffolding to make sure students are attending to the key parts). Example of parallel play: Students individually watch a video clip, then discuss. Example of collaborative play: Students blog about the video clip or work together to mark up or re-edit the clip.
  
• Students' using tech is almost always preferable over teachers' use of tech--unless it's a parallel play thing or the tool is so complex that it bogs the students down (i.e., insight from Randy Bell's astronomy work).
  
• Students using tech to organize or create is almost always better than students using tech only to access info.

Again, I don't have a clear vision of the next step. But I think my instinct is that it will require teachers and teacher-educators to be into a creating/organizing mode on the web...and that requires websites or wikis or blogs or something along those lines.