Sam Wineburg
@samwineburg
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Margaret Jacks Professor of Education & History, Stanford University, Emeritus, Founder SHEG. Co-principal & Chief Innovation Officer, Digital Inquiry Group
Joined September 2012
Why do students (and adults) so easily fall victim to AI misinformation? @samwineburg and Nadav Ziv of @InquiryGroup explain why. #EWArchive #EWOpinion
edweek.org
Researchers Sam Wineburg and Nadav Ziv explain how to turn your students into savvy online fact-checkers.
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We’re honored to be recognized by @librarycongress as part of its 2025 Literacy Awards, which highlights innovative and replicable strategies that promote literacy. In particular, @librarycongress cited our work integrating digital literacy into history instruction.
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Small changes can have big impacts. Our new research, out today
With misinformation nearly everywhere, one professor tested a simple fix of 150 minutes of fact-checking homework – and it worked, boosting the students’ ability to spot misinformation by nearly 20%. By @samwineburg:
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small changes can make a big difference. my new piece out today
theconversation.com
Just 2½ hours of online instruction made students a lot better at identifying misinformation on YouTube and TikTok.
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@fakehistoryhunt My class starts off with general explorations of real vs. pseudo-historical reasoning, e.g. as explained in the work of Sam Wineburg @samwineburg who has relentlessly argued for the distinctive nature of historical thinking + the need for a pedagogy that makes it explicit 7/8
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AI images are everywhere — and are increasingly indistinguishable from genuine photos. Our new assessment gauges students’ abilities to reason critically about a social media post that uses an AI-generated image to support a dubious historical claim.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to generate realistic images of the past. Without careful consideration of where an image comes from, it could be easy to be fooled by a bad actor misrepres...
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Has school kept up with the pace of the technical revolution? Hmm. . .
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Students spend 8+ hours a day online. Curriculum hasn’t kept up. Hear more from DIG Co-Founder @samwineburg in this brief clip from his Cubberley Lecture at @StanfordEd. [Video courtesy of Stanford Graduate School of Education]
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We’re thrilled to share that we've been awarded a new grant from @CarnegieCorp, focused on integrating digital literacy instruction across the curriculum and preparing students for the age of AI. Read more in this post by @joelbreakstone and @samwineburg: https://t.co/NPWP6b8fLH
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The most pressing challenges in digital literacy right now are integrating instruction across the curriculum and preparing students for the age of AI.
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Let me make it easy for everyone. Every single video and image that is currently going viral online claiming to show the aftermath of US strikes on Iran's Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear sites is false. They all show air strikes or explosions from days, weeks or months ago.
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The first question you should ask on the internet: Is this worth my time? At the 87th annual Cubberley Lecture at @StanfordEd, DIG Co-Founder @samwineburg explained why critical thinking starts with choosing what deserves our attention.
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It was a great honor to be the 87th Cubberley Lecturer at Stanford last week. The topic for the evening was "Digital Literacy in the Age of AI," which gave me an opportunity to talk about the exciting work we're doing @InquiryGroup
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A violent event in Camilla, Georgia, garnered national attention and affected the presidential election of 1868. What happened? In our new lesson, students source, contextualize, and corroborate competing accounts. https://t.co/XH9xemOHP9
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An incredible close.
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Professor @samwineburg keynote lecture on the use and limits of historical thinking in a digital age at @EuroClio AC in Bratislava. Inspiring !
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Our 31st Annual Conference #PatternsInHistory2025 in Bratislava 🇸🇰 has just officially opened with @samwineburg giving his keynote lecture. We're looking forward to three days of learning from colleagues from all over 🇪🇺 & the 🌎
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When people look at a source online, they often ask themselves “Does this make sense?” But the real question we should ask is “Do I know what I’m looking at?” Thanks to American Educator for running an excerpt from Verified, my book with Mike Caulfield.
aft.org
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Help students learn to sort fact from fiction online with this excerpt of Verified by @samwineburg & @holden in the new #AmericanEducator. https://t.co/ZiToJwk4V2
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My husband is an American hero 🇺🇸
Traitor? Elon, if you don’t understand that defending freedom is a basic tenet of what makes America great and keeps us safe, maybe you should leave it to those of us who do.
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