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Our question for 14 years at Youth Voices has been how do we create spaces where youth can create and enter into conversations with peers from around the country about issues that matter to them. As educators working with youth, we’ve developed careful processes where youth start with their own questions, see where these intersect…

Is there anything to be learned from teaching a text, movie, or piece of music that is racist or contains racist images?  If one is teaching older works, this question inevitably arises.  How do you teach it responsibly?  And what can students learn from that exercise that they might be able to use in other…

If you search any word or phrases, Google comes up with a lot information about that. The number of results is relevant to the topic. But in general, the number of googled key words are very high. Google has a very advanced mechanism, robots, that access to millions of websites. Also, google has another mechanism which…

When reading Ted Underwood’s “Where to start with text mining,” I was longing for a definition of text mining at the beginning. It felt like Underwood dove into the topic without giving even a brief summary of it. Underwood highlights that a large collection of texts is usually necessary in order for the analysis to have…

I cannot count how many times I have told people I study history and they have replied “I wasn’t good at history, I am terrible at remembering dates.” Sometimes I laugh this answer off, depending on how engaged I feel like getting in a conversation. And sometimes this reply leads to robust discussions about history…