Breaking Down Cultural Flattening: How AI Can Help Create More Inclusive Elementary Social Studies Materials
This blog post explains how AI tools like Claude can help fix "cultural flattening" in elementary social studies - when textbooks oversimplify history by only showing one perspective. The author demonstrates how AI can rewrite biased content to include multiple viewpoints while keeping it age-appropriate, using the Trail of Tears as an example. The goal is helping educators create more honest, inclusive materials that prepare students for a diverse world.
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Action research is a thing we do at all times as educators, whether we realize we’re doing it or not. If you’re going to frequent this blog, you should think about some action research (or at least a fun party game) where you count how frequently we use the word “purpose”. We know it, we can’t help it. Just try your best to lean in…