Civic Online Reasoning Curriculum

In-Class Exercise, Short Assignment

Review materials at the Civic Online Reasoning website to identify activities that fit the context of your course.  (A free account is required to access the materials.)  Materials can be used a la carte or worked through as a whole.

Considerations

  • Introduction to the COR Curriculum (3 min 30 sec)
  • Civic Online Reasoning in the Classroom (2 min 30 sec) 
  • These materials were designed with high school students in mind but the focus on lateral reading makes them useful even for a college audience.  They can be adapted to a variety of different subject areas.  
  • While there are many great lesson plans on the COR site, the collections titled Teaching Lateral Reading and COR Professional Learning Framework are especially focused on evaluating sources.  
  • SIFT and COR employ several of the same strategies for evaluation, although they sometimes use different words for the same concept.  Stop (from SIFT) and Click Restraint (from COR) both refer to the practice of pausing to reflect on what we know about a source before deciding whether it is worth reading. COR describes the process of Lateral Reading, which refers to the same set of practices as SIFT (Investigate the Source, Find Better Coverage, and Trace Claims to Original Context), all of which involve leaving the source to learn more about it.

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