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OPINION: Why creating and maintaining accessible digital resources is neither easy nor optional

The Hechinger Report

The Berkeley case teaches us to be attentive to accessibility up front, not simply because of legal requirements but because digital resources designed to meet accessibility standards support increased access for all. Accessibility is not optional.”. Not to be taken at all lightly, there are enormous costs to accessible information.

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Juneteenth: Teaching Outside the Textbook

Zinn Education Project

Teaching Resources Watch Professor Greg Carr’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle conversation with high school teacher Jessica Rucker about Juneteenth and Reconstruction. The National Museum of African American History and Culture offers the digital resource, Juneteenth: Celebration of Resilience.

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5 Top Trends for Teaching Social Studies in 2023

Students of History

For US History, that can be reading (or even listening to) this short article on the stock market crash of 1929 and then organizing the important parts of the article into their interactive notebook: This allows students to be hands on with their learning and easily combine a digital resource with a paper/pencil activity.