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Civic Online Reasoning Website Guidance
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This guide walks you through the Civic Online Reasoning curriculum from the Stanford History Education Group. Their extensive suite of lessons and assessments helps students acquire skills for thinking critically about the information they find online. The target audience is high school but some lessons can be adapted for younger students. 

Subject:
Communication
Electronic Technology
Information Science
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Unit of Study
Author:
Lesley James
Date Added:
11/18/2021
Does Science Fiction Predict the Future? Inquiry Bases Media Literacy Unit
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Students will learn the potential costs and benefits of social media, digital consumption, and our relationship with technology as a society in the three-week lesson. This inquiry based unit of study will answer the following questions:

Essential Question: How can we use science fiction’s ability to predict the future to help humanity?

Supportive Questions 1: What predictions of future development has science fiction accurately made in the past? This can include technology, privacy, medicine, social justice, political, environmental, education, and economic.

Supportive Question 2: What predictions for future development in contemporary science fiction are positive for the future of humanity? What factors need to begin in your lifetime to make these predictions reality?

Supportive Question 3: What predictions for future development in contemporary science fiction are negative for the future of humanity? What factors need to begin in your lifetime to stop these negative outcomes?

Subject:
Education
Material Type:
Homework/Assignment
Lesson
Reading
Unit of Study
Author:
Morgen Larsen
Date Added:
07/13/2020
Evidence vs. "Truthiness"
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Students will practice authenticating online source material as well as strategies for determining the reliability of information. This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website "Who Am I Online?"

Subject:
Communication
Composition and Rhetoric
Educational Technology
Journalism
Reading Informational Text
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Author:
Beth Clothier
Angela Anderson
Dana John
John Sadzewicz
Date Added:
06/13/2020
Lateral Reading I
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Students will look to multiple sources to verify information they find online and relate this research to the buying of a popular product to research for a scholarly purpose. This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website called "Who Am I Online?"

Subject:
Educational Technology
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Informational Text
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Reading
Author:
Beth Clothier
Angela Anderson
Dana John
John Sadzewicz
Date Added:
06/17/2020
Lateral Reading II
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The students will be able to look to multiple sources to verify information they find online. This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website "Who Am I Online?"

Subject:
Educational Technology
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Informational Text
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Author:
Beth Clothier
Angela Anderson
Dana John
John Sadzewicz
Date Added:
06/17/2020
Using Lateral Reading Skills to Evaluate Sources
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Students learn the skill of lateral reading to help identify potential bias in online resources. Students focus their investigation on famous cases involving counterfeiting and fraud - a forensics tie in.

Subject:
Applied Science
English Language Arts
Language Education (ESL)
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Case Study
Lesson
Lesson Plan
Reading
Author:
Alexa Lougee
Oregon Open Learning
Date Added:
06/16/2022