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All Reading Like a Historian lessons, Beyond the Bubble history assessments, and Civic Online Reasoning classroom materials are now available for free to educators everywhere on the DIG website.
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“The students’ feedback on these materials are incredible, they basically love them,” says Barbara Foster, an elementary teacher in Los Angeles. Explore our free curriculum: inquirygroup.org/
“I've never seen so much engagement as I have when I've done these types of lessons,” says Barbara Foster, a third-grade teacher with 30 years in the classroom. Explore Reading Like a Historian lessons for students of all ages:
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Jaci Grimes, a curriculum specialist in Lincoln, Nebraska, describes Reading Like a Historian to new teachers in one sentence: “This is how you get students to love history.” Explore our free lessons: inquirygroup.org/history-les…
“Somebody the other day was saying, ‘Did you see this online?’ and another kid said, ‘But did you laterally read?’” San Francisco social studies teacher Valerie Ziegler sees students carry Civic Online Reasoning strategies into their daily lives.
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DIG’s @joelbreakstone joined Social Studies Teachers Have Issues to discuss digital literacy, inquiry-based history, and why evidence of student learning is the metric that matters most for education non-profits.
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In @EducationNext, @rickhess99 argues that AI raises the stakes for knowledge, judgment, and discernment — and points to DIG’s digital literacy work as a model.
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NH Teacher of the Year Megan Philbrook was using our Reading Like a Historian Fort Sumter lesson when Governor Kelly Ayotte stopped by for a surprise visit! All of our curriculum materials, including the lesson Megan was using, are available for free at inquirygroup.org.
Join DIG for three sessions of interactive, online professional development. Explore Reading Like a Historian lessons and Beyond the Bubble assessments alongside fellow grades 5–12 educators.
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We have 30 free history lessons and assessments to teach the African American Freedom Movement during Black History Month and year-round. From Thomas Jennings and Emancipation to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Greensboro Sit-Ins, check out our materials: inquirygroup.org/about/updat…
Congratulations to @inquirygroup Co-Founder Sam Wineburg — named the third most influential education scholar in curriculum and instruction!
Stop by booth 328 at #ncss2025 today at 11 to meet @samwineburg
Join us this week at the National Council for the Social Studies Conference! We'll be at Booth 328 to share resources, professional development opportunities, and swag. Learn more: inquirygroup.org/about/updat…
November is National Native American Heritage Month. We have free lessons and assessments to support teaching the histories of Indigenous peoples of the United States and the Americas this month and year-round. Explore our materials: inquirygroup.org/native-amer…
In school, students read carefully selected materials. Outside, they scroll through a flood of unfiltered information. How do we bridge this divide? By bringing the digital world into the classroom, not to replace the curriculum, but to make it better. #MediaLiteracyWeek
Skilled users of the internet don't begin with critical thinking. They begin with critical ignoring. They ask, “Do I really know what I’m looking at?” Then, they use the internet to check the internet. #MediaLiteracyWeek
AI chatbots cite articles that don’t exist and draw on studies that say the opposite from what they claim. The most important thing for students to learn about AI? Information is always wedded to a particular source. #MediaLiteracyWeek
We’ve asked thousands of students to evaluate online sources. Here are the five most common mistakes they make: #MediaLiteracyWeek
Young people are online almost constantly — yet struggle to make sense of the content that streams across their screens. Our Civic Online Reasoning curriculum offers evidence-based resources teachers can use to help students make better decisions online. #MediaLiteracyWeek
Integrating digital literacy into existing coursework boosts students’ online reasoning. Learn more about our work in Illinois weaving Civic Online Reasoning into biology and geography classes in this @NASBE article: loom.ly/1LtxxHU
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Check out this downloadable guide on how to educate students to be savvy about artificial intelligence in just a few steps. #EWOpinion edweek.org/technology/opinio…









