Social Education March/April 2019
Social Education March/April 2019
Volume:83
Num:2
This edition of Social Education provides rich resources for inquiry based instruction that focuses on major political, economic, and historic issues. It offers readers two important special sections—one on current economic topics ranging from Fed policies to the impact of artificial intelligence, and the other on instructional technology strategies for using valuable online resources in the classroom.
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Editor's Notebook
This edition of Social Education provides rich resources for inquirybased
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Freedom of the Press: Challenges to this Pillar of Democracy
The First Amendment guarantee of freedom of the press has stood the test of time. But to whom should such protections apply today when the Internet and social media make everyone a potential publisher?
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Starting Conversations with Students about Personal Spending, Investing, and Stewardship with Historic Receipts
The featured receipts for personal expenses belonging to Abraham Lincoln, Rosa Parks, and others can spark an engaging lesson on spending, investing, and stewardship.
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Inquiry in the Social Studies: Reflections of an Octogenarian
When teachers are driven mainly to transmit a prescribed curriculum, student curiosity is left by the wayside.
Making Economics Cool with Hot Issues
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The History and Structure of the Federal Reserve System
The chair of the Federal Reserve chronicles the historical development of the U.S. central bank system—from the original Bank of the United States to current monetary policy.
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The Economics of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
New technologies have always destroyed some jobs while creating others. But will Artificial Intelligence finally be the technical advance that makes large numbers of humans redundant?
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Ghost Story VI: John Williams Meets Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman
In Social Education’s latest “ghost story” episode, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York confers with renowned economists Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman on the best course of action on interest rates for the Fed.
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Econs vs. Humans: An Introduction to Behavioral Economics
Integrating elements of psychology into traditional studies of economics helps students discover genuine solutions to real world problems.
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Can Rent Controls Help Reduce the High Cost of Housing in High Demand Cities?
The issue of rent control, which creates housing security for some but a housing shortage for others, can launch an interesting classroom study related to supply and demand.
New Literacies in Social Studies for the Digital Age
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Crowdsourcing the Social Studies
When students participate in classifying, transcribing, and organizing primary sources for digital history archives, they engage in historical analysis and generate data that can accelerate historical discoveries.
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Every Picture Tells a Story: Teaching the Past with Photoblogs
Creating photoblogs in the social studies classroom builds on students’ interest in using images to convey messages while teaching important media literacy skills.
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What's New about Fake News? Integrating Digital History for Media Literacy
Examining selected digital historical records can highlight for students how their emphases, distortions, or omissions can influence perceptions of events.
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Using Computational Thinking to Explore the Past, Present, and Future
The incorporation of elements of computational thinking such as decomposition, abstraction, and pattern recognition can provide a toolset for analyzing discipline-specific data.