Coming up on Thursday, September 21 at 6 pm PT, Adam Moler and I will welcome educator Justin Unruh to the Social Studies Show on EduProtocols Plus. He teaches at a Title 1 school in the heart of California’s Central Valley. Justin is an advanced EduProtocols mixologist with a flair for creativity and innovation.

Justin has been sharing his students’ impressive work on Twitter/X and in Kim Voge‘s EduProtocols Facebook community. He will be speaking at Fall CUE during the weekend of Oct 21–22, 2023 in Stockton — don’t miss his session. Like many teachers working with technology, Justin shares our concerns about helping students learn to conduct plagiarism-free, original, academic research in the age of AI.

At first glance, a collaborative spreadsheet may look boring and uninteresting, but by focusing on the initial steps in research, teachers can prevent young learners from disappearing down rabbit holes of bias, misconceptions, and scholarly dead ends.

The Research EduProtocol can help your students manage, plan, and provide evidence of their complex, rigorous, and time-consuming work. Teachers can scaffold the research process to get students ready for the self-directed learning experiences they will encounter with project-based learning in high school or college.

Writing annotated bibliographies, participating in team presentations, and creating reflective portfolios can be isolating and overwhelming. The Research EduProtocol can simplify inquiry and turn it into a social and fun experience. By working together in collaborative teams, your students will be sharing and presenting their research with little to no anxiety.

Adding the Research EduProtocol to an inquiry sequence is not as challenging as you might think. Join us Thursday night to discuss how to help your students document their inquiry journey by clearly disclosing where AI informed and started, but also where their original ideas started and developed.

For a deeper dive on how to use the Research EduProtocol, check out Chapter 16 in our book The EduProtocol Field Guide: Social Studies Edition. If you already have the book, please consider posting a review on Amazon and sharing your students’ work on Twitter using the #EduProtocols hashtag.