About 150 Chicago-area students attended a summit designed to teach them how to use social media to educate and mobilize others about social causes. The workshop, hosted by the National Council of La Raza, challenged students to use social-networking tools the way civil-rights leaders once used traditional media to promote their cause.
Gritical Explorers
Help teachers involve students in real intellectual work - in thinking critically and constructing knowledge as they investigate historical artifacts and other materials that engage their minds and imaginationsCollaborate with teachers in their classrooms to design and document explorations and to develop and share inquiry-based curricula and instructional approachesPromote the exchange of curricular experiences and ideas through an expanding teacher network, setting the stage for authentic, democratic learning in Greater Boston and beyond.