Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) is an award-winning research and development group that seeks to improve education by conducting research, working with school districts, and reaching directly into classrooms with free materials for teachers and students. Beyond the Bubble is the cornerstone of SHEG’s membership in the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Consortium. Beyond the Bubble uses Library of Congress primary sources in easy-to-use History Assessments of … [Read more...]
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TPS Spotlight: SHEG & Beyond the Bubble
Filed Under: TPS Spotlight Tagged With: assessments, Background Knowledge, beyond the bubble, consortium member, Contextualization, Corroboration, Evaluation of evidence, february, HATs, History Assessments of Thinking, Periodization, SHEG, sourcing, Stanford History Education Group, teaching with primary sources, tps, TPS consortium, tps spotlight, u.s. history, world history
Timely Connections: Fake News & Civic Reasoning

Practicing primary source analysis helps students develop historical thinking skills that also happen to be very important civic literacy skills. In an article from the Fall 2017 issue of American Educator, Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) provides assessments of online civic reasoning and tips for going beyond identifying news as "fake" or "real" to understanding where information comes from and who is behind it. Social studies consultant and History Tech blogger Glenn Wiebe provides … [Read more...]
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