Civic Online Reasoning
Historical misinformation abounds online. Improve students' ability to evaluate historical information on the internet with these curricular materials. These lessons and tasks can be used in a variety of subject areas, but we've compiled this group of materials specifically for history educators because they present students with history-related sources.
Students should learn COR skills across the curriculum, and we hope these materials serve as proof of concept for how history teachers might incorporate Civic Online Reasoning into their classes.
We live in the information age. Globally, the total current output of data is roughly 2.5 quintillion bytes, or the equivalent of the content of the Library of Congress 250,000 times over, each day. Adults in the United States today spend an average of 11 hours per day interacting with media. As individuals, we have remarkable access to information as well as the power to produce and disseminate it.