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A Community Discussion Guide for Evaluating Claims
A ninety-minute facilitation guide for running a claim-evaluation discussion in a library, congregation, or community group without it becoming an argument.
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What the Evidence Supports in Community Media Literacy Programming
A short evidence review for libraries, schools, and community organizations planning free media literacy sessions, with confidence levels attached to each finding.
Article
How Confident Should You Be?
Confidence language, what it should be based on, and how to say what you believe in a way that can be checked later.
Think Lab
What Would Change Your Mind?
Practice naming the specific observation that would reduce your confidence, which is the fastest route out of a stuck disagreement.
Toolkit resource
AI Content Verification Checklist
What to check when content may have been generated or altered by an AI system, organized around provenance rather than visual artefacts.
Article
What AI-Generated Content Changes
Which verification habits still work when text, images, and audio can be produced at near-zero cost, and which ones quietly stopped working.
Toolkit resource
Classroom Lesson Plan: Evaluating a Source in Fifty Minutes
A single-period lesson plan for secondary classrooms, with timings, a modelled demonstration, differentiation notes, and an exit ticket.
Toolkit resource
Library Workshop Outline: Two Sessions, Two Hours Each
A two-part workshop outline for public library programming, with room requirements, promotion language, and a plan for participants who arrive only once.
Toolkit resource
Source Evaluation Worksheet: Lateral Reading in Five Fields
A structured worksheet for evaluating an unfamiliar publisher in about five minutes, with space to record what you found and what you still do not know.
Toolkit resource
Seven Questions Before You Share: Printable Checklist
A one-page checklist of seven questions to run before forwarding content, sized for printing, pinning, or saving to a phone.
Toolkit resource
Assumption Audit Worksheet: Finding the Load-Bearing Premise
A five-step worksheet for locating the assumption a conclusion cannot survive without, rather than listing every assumption it makes.
Think Lab
Test Your Assumptions
Find the load-bearing assumption in two everyday organizational conclusions, and see why the obvious candidate is often not it.
Lesson
How Images Lose Their Original Context
Recontextualized photographs mislead more often than manipulated ones. Here is how it happens and how to trace an image back to its origin.
Toolkit resource
Image Context Checklist: Tracing a Photograph
Six checks for establishing when and where a photograph was taken and what it can honestly be said to show.
Think Lab
Spot the Missing Context
Practice identifying the specific missing piece that makes a statistic or a quotation uninterpretable.
Think Lab
Evaluate a Source
Practice lateral reading on a fictional organization: what to do first, and how a funding finding should change your reading.
Lesson
How to Evaluate an Online Source
Lateral reading in practice: how to judge an unfamiliar website or account in about two minutes by leaving the page rather than studying it.
Think Lab
Analyze a Headline
Practice reading three headlines for what they establish, what they imply, and what they leave for the article to prove.
Lesson
How to Read a News Story Critically
A repeatable six-pass method for reading a news story: claim, sourcing, evidence, framing, omissions, and confidence.
Toolkit resource
News Story Reading Checklist: Six Passes
A printable card summarizing the six-pass method for reading a news story, with the question each pass asks.
Toolkit resource
Feed Audit Worksheet: Ten Items, Three Questions
A short structured audit of your own feed that makes the selection process visible and separates what you see from what is prevalent.
Lesson
How Algorithms Shape What You See
What ranking and recommendation systems optimize for, and how that changes the meaning of popularity, consensus, and urgency in a feed.
Article
What Else Could Explain This?
A structured way to generate alternative explanations before settling on one, adapted from analysis of competing hypotheses for everyday use.
Lesson
Understanding Confirmation Bias
What confirmation bias is, the three distinct behaviours it covers, and the small number of countermeasures that survive contact with real evidence.
Toolkit resource
Claim Sorting Worksheet: Observation, Inference, Judgment
A four-column worksheet for taking apart a paragraph of argument and locating where a disagreement actually sits.
Think Lab
Fact or Inference
Sort three statements about the same event into observation, inference, assumption, and value judgment.
Lesson
Fact, Inference, and Opinion
How to tell an observation from an interpretation from a value judgment, and why mixing them is the most common reasoning error in public argument.
Lesson
Correlation Is Not Causation
Four specific reasons two things can move together without one causing the other, and the questions that tell them apart in practice.
Lesson
Seven Questions to Ask Before You Share
A thirty-second checklist that catches most of the content people later regret passing along, without requiring you to become a fact checker.
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