AI in SOCIAL STUDIES: Practical Tools and Time-Saving Strategies (Grades 6-12)

Presented by Glenn Wiebe
Outstanding Educator, Author, and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for Grades 6-12 Social Studies/History Teachers and Administrators

Significantly increase student learning and engagement in your Social Studies classes
Research-based, time-saving approaches for decreasing lesson planning and assessment time
Free and easy-to-use technology ideas, including web-based tools, game-based apps, Google Workspace, and more
Over 50 innovative strategies, lessons, ideas, and helpful resources for strengthening student learning and engagement in your classroom using AI tools

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Enhance your secondary social studies classroom by leveraging the innovative potential of AI tools. This NEW seminar introduces practical and easy-to-implement methods for integrating AI to enrich your existing instructional designs. Learn fresh techniques to foster deeper student engagement, personalize learning experiences, provide individual feedback, and enhance learning through AI-powered resources. Pinpoint fundamental knowledge and success criteria, motivate your students with the latest AI EdTech tools, and explore a variety of instructional practices that cultivate active and involved learners.

In this NEW hands-on and interactive seminar, experienced social studies educator, author, and national presenter Glenn Wiebe will share collaborative and interactive learning strategies augmented by AI. He'll share techniques for incorporating maps, graphs, photos, primary and secondary sources using AI assistance, and highlight effective ways to strengthen critical thinking skills. You will leave this highly practical, resource-rich seminar equipped with ideas and materials designed to boost student engagement and bring increased relevance to your social studies teaching.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Demystify AI
Unpack AI and its current capabilities and also address common misconceptions … Develop best practices for responsible use in social studies while addressing issues of privacy, bias, and academic integrity
Efficiently Gather Information
Use AI to streamline and enrich your unit designs with tools and strategies that curate relevant primary and secondary sources, summarize complex historical texts, and identify diverse perspectives on historical events
Generate Engaging Learning Activities
Use AI to create interactive and engaging activities, develop historical simulations, produce role-playing exercises, and craft discussion prompts that encourage critical thinking and debate
Tailor Resources and Feedback
Use AI to differentiate instruction with varied resources based on student needs and learning styles
Design More Effective Assessments and Targeted Feedback
Unpack how AI can create varied assessment formats, analyze patterns in student responses, generate rubrics, provide targeted feedback, and streamline the grading process
Promoting Academic Integrity in the Age of AI
Explore proactive strategies for designing assignments that encourage original thought and analysis, and implementing fair methods for detecting and addressing AI-assisted plagiarism
Time-Saving Strategies
Reclaim valuable planning and instructional time by automating administrative tasks such as generating quizzes, creating vocabulary lists, and organizing resources
Practical Application of AI Tools
Explore and experiment with specific AI tools … Leave with tools to apply to your own content and curriculum to develop practical strategies for immediate implementation
Collaborate and Plan With Other Social Studies Teachers
Discover strategies and resources to create a shared resource bank of AI prompts, activity ideas, and best practices
Receive an Extensive Digital Resource Handbook and Website Access
Walk away smarter with a highly practical digital resource handbook and access to a shared website full of AI prompts, ideas, strategies, and resources you can immediately implement in your social studies classroom

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

Practical and proven classroom strategies for leveraging AI tools to incorporate meaningful reading and writing into your instruction
How to mash-up primary sources from archives such as DocsTeach, Google Arts and Culture, and the Smithsonian Learning Lab with AI to encourage source analysis, contextualization, and corroboration
Time-saving tips and tricks for using free AI resources to enhance your students' learning
Building student appreciation of more rigorous writing and project-based assignments with AI-supported outlining, research, revision, and feedback
High-interest, high-impact strategies that build students' historical thinking skills
Powerful, research-based activities such as Project Zero, Eduprotocols, and the Social Studies FIELD Guide to model and support student collaboration and engagement
Use AI tools to support critical thinking, research, and argument instruction while using the classroom-tested Structured Academic Controversy strategy
Innovative techniques for using gamification theory, board games, and video games to deliver content and provide formative assessment data
Dynamic AI discussion strategies and tools that help students better articulate their positions and connect learning to their lives
Innovative ideas and activities for integrating literacy skills that will strengthen the reading, writing, and communication skills that students need
Powerful reflection techniques and AI prompts that help students deepen their understanding

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

The traditional social studies lessons and strategies that we've used for years need a serious update. Our students are entering a vastly different political, social, and economic environment than even ten years ago. They're dealing with learning gaps. Anxiety. Worry. Disengagement. They require a different set of skills to be successful in their local, state, national, and global communities. And this makes our task as social studies teachers more critical than ever.

One of the most powerful tools emerging to meet this challenge is artificial intelligence (AI). My goal in this seminar is to share the best classroom-tested ways AI can enhance your social studies teaching, save you time, and increase student learning. Our day will be full of strategies, tools, and resources that can be rolled out immediately. All are classroom-tested and ready to use with your own students. During our time together, I will share the best of what I've found to be successful. And you'll get special access to our seminar-specific handbook and website!

I designed this seminar expressly with the needs of both you and your students in mind. It will be a practical, hands-on learning experience focused on improving social studies/history instruction and assessment with the help of AI—so your students learn more and are better prepared for the future.

What you do every day is too critical to leave to chance, so I'll make sure you leave with the most effective, AI-powered ideas that I know really work, all ready to use immediately.

I'm looking forward to learning with you!

Sincerely,
Glenn Wiebe

P.S. Come ready to learn, share and engage during this fast-paced learning day full of outstanding AI-powered strategies you can use the very next day!

Who Should Attend

Grades 6-12 Social Studies/History Teachers and Administrators

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Digital Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. The handbook includes:

The most effective AI strategies to improve student learning and engagement in social studies
Practical AI strategies to increase students' reading and writing abilities
Lists of social studies AI tools and resources
Printable student handouts and links to digital versions
Whole group, small group, and individual activities that can be implemented as soon as you return to your classroom

Each participant will also receive access to the seminar's website. The website is loaded with:

Bonus resources, online tools, and materials
Links to seminar activities
Brand-new tools and activities Glenn has recently discovered
Downloadable digital tools

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in using AI in their Social Studies program.

Consultation Available
Glenn Wiebe will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

On-Site Training Guarantee

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We guarantee you'll be fully satisfied or you'll owe us nothing after your on-site training event.