Sam Wineburg

Sam Wineburg is the Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and History at Stanford University. Educated at Brown and Berkeley, he holds a doctorate in Psychological Studies in Education from Stanford and an honorary doctorate from Sweden's Umeå University. His writing has appeared in the New York Times , Washington Post , Slate , TIME Magazine as well as in many scholarly journals. His latest book (Chicago, 2018) is called Why Learn History (When It is Already on Your Phone).

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Sorting Truth From Fiction: Civic Online Reasoning (edX)

Learn teaching practices that help students become savvy consumers of digital information. Fake news and misinformation pose an urgent challenge to citizens across the globe. Multiple studies have shined a light on people’s difficulty in distinguishing truth from fiction, reliable information from [...]