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Celebrated on September 17, Constitution Day and Citizenship Day commemorates the 1787 signing of the US Constitution and honors all citizens, including naturalized ones. It promotes civic education regarding the document’s history and rights, while highlighting the responsibilities of American citizenship and encouraging community engagement.
Every smartphone, search engine, and AI model runs on a concept invented 1,200 years ago by a scholar working with pen, paper, and breakthrough logic. His name was Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. In Latin, it became “Algoritmi.” His step-by-step method became the algorithm, the source code of the modern world.
“Failure” and “hardship” probably aren’t the first words that come to mind in describing the legacy of the first United States president, George Washington. While Washington is generally viewed through a lens of strength in leading the colonies through the American Revolution 250 years ago, a new film aims to deepen the nation’s understanding of his evolution as a young work in progress.
Dr. Sara: Disease Detective is a visual novel mobile game for both iOS and Android in which players step into the role of the world’s leading epidemiologist. Tasked with investigating and solving perplexing disease outbreaks in global hotspots, players experience a character-driven simulation of Epidemic Intelligence Service detective work.
The Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) in Chicago is a nonprofit dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history and cultural impact of radio, television, podcasting, and streaming. Through archives, exhibitions, programs, and digital platforms, the MBC brings broadcast history to life while elevating diverse voices, innovators, and storytellers who have shaped media and society.
Walden, a game explores the life of American philosopher Henry David Thoreau during his experiment in self-reliant living at Walden …
It’s commonly said that pictures are worth a thousand words. As our nation’s Semiquincentennial approaches, young people around the country are doing the talking through multimedia portraits of their local communities.
The Morgan Library & Museum’s It’s Alive! exhibition shows how author Mary Shelley created a monster. The online exhibition traces the origins and impact of her novel, Frankenstein, which has constantly been reinterpreted in spinoffs, sequels, mashups, tributes, and parodies.
Public television station KQED built KQED Teach, a free professional development media literacy platform to train teachers—through hands-on media creation—to navigate media overload, misinformation, persuasive techniques, and bias so they’re more comfortable passing the information along to students.
As algorithms become more prevalent in everyday life, these key decision-making automations become ever more important for young people to understand.