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The article focuses on the critical thinking ability of students involving history. It cites the College, Career and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies which offer teachers practical ideas for how to entice students to craft complex and incisive questions. It outlines the dimensions of Inquiry Arc of the C3 Framework.

We are currently facing international (and domestic) crises that require political cooperation, honest dialogue, and compromise. While national identity is certainly not going away, there is growing support for a form of global citizenship, and technology has become a major and even transforming force within this movement. I've written about global history and global studies in this column in the past. While those concepts helped us see history, economics, and political science from a global (not national) perspective, digital global history gives us the tools to begin taking the first steps to becoming a global citizen. We're just beginning this journey, but if technology keeps barreling along at faster and faster speeds, we'll all see some truly major changes in our feelings about nations and citizenship in our lifetimes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]