KidCitizen workshop at NCSS Conference 11/16

If you’ll be in San Francisco for NCSS, we will be putting on a free workshop for teachers.

Explore the KidCitizen Apps, designed to foster young children’s inquiry with primary sources, and then learn to create and share your own episodes using the KidCitizen Editor.

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KidCitizen workshop 11-16

Learn how to use KidCitizen episodes in your classes, AND how to create primary-source learning episodes with the KidCitizen Editor.

You’ll leave having learned how to use KidCitizen episodes in your classes, AND how you can create your own episodes with primary sources you choose.  KidCitizen designers Bert Snow, Dr. Michael Berson, and Dr. Ilene Berson will present.

Here are the details:

KidCitizen App: Designing Digital Games for Inquiry with Primary Sources

Thu Nov 16 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Room: 3000, Moscone Center West, 800 Howard St., San Francisco

Participants will explore freely available digital apps designed to foster young children’s inquiry with primary sources and then use the digital game templates to create their own episodes. Laptop needed.

Presenters:

Ilene Berson, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; Michael Berson, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; Bert Snow, Muzzy Lane Software, Amesbury, MA; Bretton Varga, University of South Florida

SessionType:  Half Day Clinics

Session ID: 542

https://www.socialstudies.org/conference/half-day-clinics/kidcitizen-app-designing-digital-games-inquiry-primary-sources

 

Herbert Snow