Transforming Civic Education with Emerging Tech Tools & Resources

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Resources Referenced in the Presentation 

Civic Education Today

• The Importance of Civics Lessons (Interview with Justices Sotomayor and Justice Gorsuch)

• The Evolution of Modern Civic Engagement

• The Modern Robes of Democracy

• What federal funding for civics reveals about American political discourse

• Brown Center Report on American Education: An inventory of state civics requirements 2018

• Governor Baker Signs Bill to Promote Civic Education for Students (2018)

• Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Legislation

• Civics Secures Democracy Act (Pending Federal Legislation)

What Works in Civic Education

• The Republic is Still at Risk (And Civics is Part of the Solution)

• Educating for American Democracy

The Power of Action Civics & Authentic Experiences

• Generation Citizen

• Mikva Challenge

• Earth Force

News Media Literacy to Combat Misinformation

• Civic Online Reasoning Curriculum

• Checkology

• Common Sense Media News and Media Literacy Lessons

• Newseum Ed

• Navigating Digital Information (Crash Course, SHEG, Mediawise, Poynter Institue)

Engagement Through Games, Simulations & Competitions

• iCivics

• Games for Change

• Informable

• Factitious

• We the People Competition

• Project Soapbox

• Generation Citizen Civics Day

• Kidizenship

• Games for Change National Student Challenge

Curating & Creating Digital Content

• Tom’s Civics Video Channel