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How do we help students fine-tune their skepticism so that it leads to knowledge-seeking and openness to new ideas?

Encouraging students to think through problems in the contemporary media landscape can help them become more active, open-minded knowledge-seekers.

September has been a grim month. Three boys—15-year old Billy Lucas in Indiana, and 13-year olds Asher Brown in Texas and Seth Walsh in California—took their own lives after being subjected to relentless anti-gay bullying in school. And then, just one day before this miserable September ended, news came of another tragedy. This time, Tyler Clementi, an 18-year old college student, believed it was better to jump off the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River 600 feet below rather than live through being outed and humiliated at the hands of his homophobic roommate who streamed video of Tyler’s sexual encounter with a “dude” for the world to see.

Like Rosa and Gloria, your students have surely noticed inequities between different schools. Get them talking about these issues upfront!

Once upon a time there was a very clever boy. Nearby was a village he decided to visit. Just outside that village he came upon a crowd of people standing in a field. As he drew near, he saw they looked quite frightened

For the first time in 34 years, this social studies teacher feels forced to not do his job when it comes to teaching the election.