Scholar’s Convocation with Sam Wineburg

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April 20, 2022

Please join the Grinnell College Libraries, the Grinnell College History Department, and the Grinnell College Education Department for the April 28 Scholar’s Convocation featuring Professor Sam Wineburg, Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of History & American Studies, Emeritus at Stanford University.

The title of Professor Wineburg’s talk is “Historical Thinking in a Digital Age: Tool or Relic?,” and he has provided the following overview: What does historical thinking have to offer when we carry the British Library in our back pocket? In this talk, I’ll share highlights of three decades of exploring what historical thinking offers to a democratic society. However, I will do so with special reference to the challenges facing us when we become historicized — not by books and scholarly articles — but by the information that flows ceaselessly across our screens.

In 2004, Wineburg founded the Stanford History Education Group, a curriculum development effort that has grown into the largest provider of free curriculum in the social studies, with over 11 million downloads of its curriculum and assessments. Since 2016 his research has focused on “Civic Online Reasoning,” or how people judge the credibility of information on the Internet — research that has been reported in Time Magazine, the BBC, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, PBS, and translated into dozens of languages. His current book project, A Citizen’s Guide to the Internet (Chicago), with co-author Mike Caulfield, is slated to appear in December 2022.

The Scholar’s Convocation will be held at 11 am, Thursday, April 28, in HSSC A1231 (multipurpose room) and via Webex.

Event number: 2624 353 0355

Event password: SWConvo2022

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