Engaging Learners
the 21st cen tury social
in
stud ies classroom
Glenn Wiebe
glennw@essdack.org
©2009

this is Erin

this is Jake

they think
history is
boring

they’re not
so fond of
geography
or
government
either

why should we care?

“I have to power
down when I get to
school.”
HS student

“Today’s students
are no longer
the people our
educational system
was designed to
teach.”
Marc Prensky

“If students are prepared only for
literacies of paper & pencil
technologies, they will be
unprepared for a future in
which new literacies are
required . . .”
Rachel Karchmer
Innovative Approaches to Literacy Education

so . . . what do
these new
literacies look
like?

Bit based

not just tree based

three C’s

collaborate
create
communicate

www.socialstudiescentral.com

use visual Discrepant
Event Inquiries

geography terms word sort

map jigsaw

play video games

Ancient
Egypt
www.knowledgematters.com

how about the Civil
War?

left
what you see
right
what you feel
bottom
what all the images have in
common

left
what you see
right
what you feel
bottom
what do all the images have in
common?

what’s your
elevator
speech?

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