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Enables the students to put forth their opinions and understanding about different things going on in the world. 

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Enables the students to put forth their opinions and understanding about different things going on in the world. 

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Hot topics make the students think about whether what they believe in has some rationale behind why they believe in it. And this enables them to frame their strong opinions.
- Divya

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A hot topic is something which evokes sentiments, which may be diverse in nature, in people.

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Anything which evokes strong emotions among people

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Anything which evokes strong emotions among people

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Anything that might not have an easy answer

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Anything that might not have an easy answer

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A topic that will elicit extreme responses, is usually multifaceted, and yet something we feel the moral/ethical need to pass quick judgement on

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Because social studies is about studying societies and what else do we do if not this ._.

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Because social studies is about studying societies and what else do we do if not this ._.

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My current understanding of HOT topic is situation that is unpleasant but needs  to be confronted. 

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My current understanding of HOT topic is situation that is unpleasant but needs  to be confronted. 

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Hot topic leads to open up the mind, evokes thought process, pushes you to think critically, build perspective, evaluate through facts and justifies reason for final statement.

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It is important to teach hot topics to the students so that they can become critical thinkers and active citizens of the world.

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Hot topics will impact all of us sooner or later

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Hot topics will impact all of us sooner or later

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It is important to create a space/practice where our students learn to engage with these difficult topics critically and not just react to things

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So that the students develop confidence in themselves have a broadened view towards people and society and helps to evoke  change from within

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So that the students develop confidence in themselves have a broadened view towards people and society and helps to evoke  change from within

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The points that stayed with me are: 1) The teacher doesn't have to be unbiased or neutral when teaching hot topics
2) Children are activists. Also, the best kind of activism begins at home.

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I know and agree about the importance, but there are a million what ifs and hows in my head

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It is important for us to teach hot-topics to the students. Not knowing about what's going on and blindly believing in other people's opinion, doesn't make any sense of us being teachers, who donot give students to form their own personal opinions.

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It is important for us to teach hot-topics to the students. Not knowing about what's going on and blindly believing in other people's opinion, doesn't make any sense of us being teachers, who donot give students to form their own personal opinions.

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Approach should be unbiased, critical but mindful with clear goals and norms

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Approach should be unbiased, critical but mindful with clear goals and norms

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To develop critical thinking and build connection situation and impact of actions.

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My approach is often very opinionated and impression immersive

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My approach is often very opinionated and impression immersive

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a topic that impacts students/society and may be perceived as controversial or rouse strong emotions

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Be unbiased, critical thought process and perspective with reason and facts.

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to give students the tools with which to understand and articulate how power affects society, to create conscious citizens.

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to give students the tools with which to understand and articulate how power affects society, to create conscious citizens.

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that i should provide facts first, judgement later, and focus on context + relevance to the classroom

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that i should provide facts first, judgement later, and focus on context + relevance to the classroom