Sam Wineburg: History professor, author, truth-seeker, and Wikipedia fan

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4.6 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Sam Wineburg teaches us how you can tell what’s credible from what’s not on the internet. Wineburg directs Stanford’s PhD program in History Education, the only program of its kind in North America, http://sheg.stanford.edu His interdisciplinary scholarship sits at the crossroads of three fields: history, cognitive science, and education, and has appeared in such diverse outlets as Cognitive Science, Journal of American History, Smithsonian Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:44.3	I'm Guy Kawasaki and this is remarkable people. Sam Weinberg is the Margaret
0:53.9	Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University.
0:57.3	He heads the Stanford History Education Group.
1:00.4	This organization seeks to improve the teaching of history.
1:03.5	It is currently focused on helping students learn how to interpret online content.
1:09.4	Sam is the author of two books.
1:11.2	First, historical thinking and other unnatural acts.
1:14.8	Second, why learn history when it's already on your phone?
1:19.0	The former book won the Frederick W. Ness Award from the Association of American Colleges
1:24.5	and Universities for work that makes the most important contribution to the,
1:29.5	quote, improvement of liberal education and understanding the liberal arts.
1:34.6	In this podcast, Sam is going to teach you better ways to discern fact from fiction in online content
1:40.7	by using simple and easy methods.
1:43.7	According to Sam, quote, the real question is how to create an informed citizenry in an age when we meet the world through a screen.
1:52.4	Figuring this out is neither a regulatory nor technological challenge. It is an educational one. I'm Guy Kawasaki and this is remarkable remarkable people. And now, to help you become a more
2:03.6	critical consumer of online information, here is Sam Weinberg. Ever since 1918, what we've shown
2:14.8	over and over and over again is that that disconnected and decontextualized
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