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Grant, S. G.; Swan, Kathy; Lee, John – Social Education, 2023
Assessment is usually considered as an afterthought in the instructional design process. Given the many challenges of assessment design--and the lack of ready solutions--teachers may fall back on familiar forms of assessments and hope for the best. As a result, the problem is not a lack of will on the part of teachers. Instead, it is the lack of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Inquiry, Design, Models
Berson, Ilene R.; Berson, Michael J. – Social Education, 2023
The authors describe the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) applications like ChatGPT to address the challenges faced in social studies education and develop strategies for its effective integration into the classroom. This includes identifying the ethical implications of AI, its impact on assessment methods, and opportunities for…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software
Turner, Alison; Manfra, Meghan – Social Education, 2023
There have been multiple calls to support more systematic approaches to addressing the needs of multilingual students in social studies. In this action research study, the authors point to the Maryland Humanities Inquiry Kits, which provide an example of how to leverage digital history resources in the multilingual classroom for a culturally and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Social Studies, Primary Sources, Culturally Relevant Education
Cartner, Christy; Swan, Kathy; Crowley, Ryan – Social Education, 2023
In 2019, Kentucky unanimously adopted new social studies standards featuring a version of the C3 Framework's inquiry arc, joining dozens of other states with inquiry practices embedded in their standards. The state legislature revised them in 2022 by passing the "Teaching American Principles Act." The Kentucky law requires teachers to…
Descriptors: Females, Gender Issues, Womens Studies, State Standards
Yell, Michael M. – Social Education, 2023
The technology company OpenAI released a generative artificial intelligence program that can create detailed written responses, write essays, poetry, code, and much more, in response to short written prompts. It had been years in the making and had been exposed to over 40 gigabytes of text, webpages, images, and other content. ChatGPT is a large…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Accuracy
Allen, Kelly R. – Social Education, 2023
While empirical studies on the use of hip-hop music in social studies spaces is limited, the work that has been done offers encouraging perspectives. Some research suggests that incorporating hip-hop lyrics into the classroom leads to increased student engagement and greater curricular relevance. Other scholars have centered hip-hop as a way to…
Descriptors: Music, Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Civics
Conrad, Jenni; Gallagher, Jennifer – Social Education, 2023
Critical inquiries--those seeking to disrupt and alleviate injustice--amplify the stakes and challenges of designing effective compelling questions. Teachers must navigate decisions about what constitutes an injustice, which perspectives are legitimate, and how to maintain a focus on justice and equity while neither indoctrinating students nor…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Design, Criticism, Inquiry
Kahne, Joseph; Cortés, Carlos E. – Social Education, 2023
The authors feel there is a need of a new and different kind of classroom conversation about free speech--one that not only considers the legal and aspirational dimensions but also weighs the practice and impact of speech in daily life. Two factors make this new conversation particularly urgent. First, the avalanche of social media communication,…
Descriptors: Freedom of Speech, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Authentic Learning, Democracy
Swan, Kathy; Crowley, Ryan; Stamoulacatos, Nick; Lewis, Bonnie; Stringer, Grant – Social Education, 2022
In this article, the authors examine one approach to teaching hard history using an Inquiry Design Model (IDM) curricular loop. A curricular loop allows students to build a deeper understanding of a complex idea and develop a greater facility with the tools of inquiry over a course of study by regularly engaging in an inquiry. The curricular loop…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, History Instruction, Social Studies
Lo, Jane C.; Neufeld-Kaiser, Jerry – Social Education, 2022
Project-based learning (PBL) is well known for engaging students enthusiastically and for supporting strong experiential learning. Less well known is that rigorous PBL also excels at fostering rich civic engagement--of key importance now, at a time of heightened concern about civics education. In this article, the authors will illuminate how…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, United States Government (Course), Civics
Perrotta, Katherine – Social Education, 2022
On a hot July day in 1854, 24-year-old schoolteacher Elizabeth Jennings, accompanied by a friend, attempted to board a horse-drawn trolley to attend Sunday church services in Lower Manhattan. The Irish conductor refused, telling Jennings, who was African American, to await a horsecar for "her people." When Jennings resisted, the…
Descriptors: Empathy, Court Litigation, United States History, African Americans
Brillinger, Matthew; Soroko, Agata – Social Education, 2022
This article explores the extent to which official social studies curriculum documents acknowledge difficult questions raised by the persistence of poverty in the United States. As it turns out, just as some parts of social studies curricula tell distorted stories about U.S. history, other parts tell misleading stories about the nation's present…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Course Content, Poverty, United States History
Drake, Janine Giordano; Cohen, Robert – Social Education, 2022
If high school history courses are meant to introduce students to the paradoxes and debates of American history, then they should study the 1619 Project, the authors argue in this article. College history students regularly debate the extent to which slavery was formative to the development of American systems of law, business, medicine, religion…
Descriptors: High School Students, History Instruction, United States History, African American History
Rubin, Edward L. – Social Education, 2022
Modern people work in massive factories or offices for remotely managed corporations and need protection in their capacity as employees. Instead of locally made or distributed products, they buy mass market goods manufactured hundreds or thousands of miles away and need protection in their capacity as consumers. And as industrial production…
Descriptors: Manufacturing, Pollution, Public Agencies, Federal Government
Mann, Isabel; Hobbs, Renee – Social Education, 2022
Exposure to propaganda can lead to biased attitudes that change the way people speak and act, sometimes without their conscious awareness. Propaganda has historically contributed to systemic discrimination, bias-motivated violence, and even genocide. By comparing historic and contemporary propaganda, students come to understand how people's values…
Descriptors: Propaganda, Media Literacy, Faculty Development, Seminars