Civic Online Reasoning

Students are confused about how to evaluate online information. We all are. The COR curriculum provides free lessons and assessments that help you teach students to evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world.

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Free lessons and assessments for today’s educators

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      From history teachers to educational technology specialists to librarians in our district, those who have become familiar with Civic Online Reasoning are using the lessons and assessments to engage students in combating misinformation and to provide a skill set to foster empowered citizenship in the digital age.

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      Research-based curriculum

      Our approach rests on peer-reviewed research. Based on observations of professional fact checkers at the nation’s leading news outlets, we identified a set of questions and strategies that should guide online evaluation.

      When you come across information online, you should ask:

      1. 1. Who’s behind the information?
      2. 2. What’s the evidence?
      3. 3. What do other sources say?

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