Sorting Truth From Fiction: Civic Online Reasoning
The Stanford History Education Group distills practices used by professional fact-checkers at major news outlets into a course for teachers on evaluating online information. Built with MIT and Stanford faculty, it offers readings, classroom practice lessons, and assignments aimed at helping educators teach students to judge web sources quickly and accurately. Topics include checking the credibility of a claim, tracing where information originates, and verifying evidence before sharing it further. The course is part of MIT's Open Learning Library, so all materials, videos, and exercises are free to view and use without enrolling, with optional sign-up for progress tracking. It works as a practical toolkit for bringing media literacy instruction directly into a classroom rather than a theoretical overview of misinformation.