Teaching / Open the question
The world is complicated.
The worksheet should know that.
Simulations, visual arguments, syllabi, and things to try in a room full of people. Built to make ideas do some work.
Use something. Tell me what happened.
Frontiers Simulations8
Whose Terms?31 resource
Institutions, participation, representation, and arguments that persist.
Learning bot / 40-60 minutes
How do political messages become action—and what evidence connects them? Explore January 6 through the testimony of election workers, police officers, and a White House aide. With Alex, your AI evidence guide, examine race, loyalty, violence, and accountability. Compare accounts, question assumptions, and build an explanation you can defend—and revise when the evidence demands.
Open learning botMUSE / AI & education
A little help getting from “I read it” to “I understand it.”
These learning bots help students read difficult texts, apply concepts, test arguments, and revise their thinking. Start with the source. Keep your judgment switched on.
Before You Begin Watch these three testimony videos before starting The Signal Room: 1. Police testimony: Aquilino Gonell, Michael Fanone, Daniel Hodges, and Harry Dunn https://youtu.be/a8WU8MRC2M8 2. Shaye Moss’s testimony, including recorded testimony from Ruby Freeman https://youtu.be/6dn48fcHkFw 3. Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony https://www.pbs.org/video/the-january-6th-hearings-day-6-9racyj/ As you watch, note a few specific moments: what each witness personally experienced, what they learned from others, and what questions their account raises. Bring those observations to your conversation with Alex. Prefer to read? You can use the hearing transcripts instead: Police testimony: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-117hhrg45472/html/CHRG-117hhrg45472.htm Shaye Moss: https://www.gov
Bots open in ChatGPT or Gemini. You may need an account. For classwork, follow your course’s instructions about AI.
For educators
I also build activities that happen between people.
My workshops start with decisions, bargaining, uncertainty, and competing priorities. Then we use theory to make sense of what just happened.
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