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Sara Evers is a PhD candidate in Curriculum and Instruction for History and Social Science Education at Virginia Tech. Before pursuing her doctorate, she taught high school history in Virginia public schools. She currently works as an Educational Consultant for the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program.Her scholarship interests include:
• Creative pedagogies
• Pedagogical decision making
• Curriculum Studies
• Technology use for teaching and learningSara's current projects include an analysis of teachers' discourse about inquiry in online forums. She is part of the History Education for the Techno-Curious group https://genaiinhistoryeducation.com/. Sara is interested in GenAI as a social technology and is currently studying how GenAI applications communicate history through immersive experience. Future research plans include exploration of how information technologies influence teachers’ attitudes towards and pedagogical decision making around the assessment of historical knowledge.

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