THINK helps people understand how information works, evaluate what they encounter online, recognize manipulation and misinformation, and make better-informed decisions.https://think.arac-international.org/en-US2026 ARAC International Inc.https://think.arac-international.org/toolkit/resources/community-discussion-guide-for-evaluating-claims/https://think.arac-international.org/toolkit/resources/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.Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTToolkit resourcecommunity-practicemedia-literacycritical-thinkinginfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/reports/what-the-evidence-supports-in-media-literacy-programming/https://think.arac-international.org/reports/what-the-evidence-supports-in-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.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportcommunity-practicemedia-literacyinformation-resilienceinfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/articles/how-confident-should-you-be/https://think.arac-international.org/articles/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.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTArticleinformation-resiliencecritical-thinkinginfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/think-lab/what-would-change-your-mind/https://think.arac-international.org/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.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTThink Labinformation-resiliencecritical-thinkinginfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/toolkit/resources/ai-content-verification-checklist/https://think.arac-international.org/toolkit/resources/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.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTToolkit resourceai-literacyinformation-manipulationinfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/articles/what-ai-generated-content-changes/https://think.arac-international.org/articles/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.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTArticleai-literacyinformation-manipulationinfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/toolkit/resources/classroom-source-evaluation-lesson-plan/https://think.arac-international.org/toolkit/resources/classroom-source-evaluation-lesson-plan/A single-period lesson plan for secondary classrooms, with timings, a modelled demonstration, differentiation notes, and an exit ticket.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTToolkit resourcecommunity-practicemedia-literacyinfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/toolkit/resources/library-workshop-outline/https://think.arac-international.org/toolkit/resources/library-workshop-outline/A two-part workshop outline for public library programming, with room requirements, promotion language, and a plan for participants who arrive only once.Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTToolkit resourcecommunity-practicemedia-literacydigital-literacyinfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/toolkit/resources/source-evaluation-worksheet/https://think.arac-international.org/toolkit/resources/source-evaluation-worksheet/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.Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTToolkit resourcemedia-literacydigital-literacyinfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/toolkit/resources/seven-questions-before-you-share-checklist/https://think.arac-international.org/toolkit/resources/seven-questions-before-you-share-checklist/A one-page checklist of seven questions to run before forwarding content, sized for printing, pinning, or saving to a phone.Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTToolkit resourcemedia-literacyinformation-manipulationinfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/toolkit/resources/assumption-audit-worksheet/https://think.arac-international.org/toolkit/resources/assumption-audit-worksheet/A five-step worksheet for locating the assumption a conclusion cannot survive without, rather than listing every assumption it makes.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTToolkit resourcecritical-thinkinginformation-resilienceinfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/think-lab/test-your-assumptions/https://think.arac-international.org/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.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTThink Labcritical-thinkinginformation-resilienceinfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/learn/lessons/how-images-lose-their-original-context/https://think.arac-international.org/learn/lessons/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.Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTLessoninformation-manipulationdigital-literacymedia-literacyinfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/toolkit/resources/image-context-checklist/https://think.arac-international.org/toolkit/resources/image-context-checklist/Six checks for establishing when and where a photograph was taken and what it can honestly be said to show.Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTToolkit resourceinformation-manipulationdigital-literacyinfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/think-lab/spot-missing-context/https://think.arac-international.org/think-lab/spot-missing-context/Practice identifying the specific missing piece that makes a statistic or a quotation uninterpretable.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTThink Labinformation-manipulationmedia-literacyinfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/think-lab/evaluate-a-source/https://think.arac-international.org/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.Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTThink Labmedia-literacydigital-literacyinfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/learn/lessons/how-to-evaluate-an-online-source/https://think.arac-international.org/learn/lessons/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.Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTLessonmedia-literacydigital-literacyinfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/think-lab/analyze-a-headline/https://think.arac-international.org/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.Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTThink Labmedia-literacycritical-thinkinginfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/learn/lessons/how-to-read-a-news-story-critically/https://think.arac-international.org/learn/lessons/how-to-read-a-news-story-critically/A repeatable six-pass method for reading a news story: claim, sourcing, evidence, framing, omissions, and confidence.Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTLessonmedia-literacycritical-thinkinginfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/toolkit/resources/news-story-reading-checklist/https://think.arac-international.org/toolkit/resources/news-story-reading-checklist/A printable card summarizing the six-pass method for reading a news story, with the question each pass asks.Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTToolkit resourcemedia-literacycritical-thinkinginfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/toolkit/resources/feed-audit-worksheet/https://think.arac-international.org/toolkit/resources/feed-audit-worksheet/A short structured audit of your own feed that makes the selection process visible and separates what you see from what is prevalent.Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTToolkit resourcedigital-literacyinfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/learn/lessons/how-algorithms-shape-what-you-see/https://think.arac-international.org/learn/lessons/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.Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTLessondigital-literacyinformation-manipulationinfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/articles/what-else-could-explain-this/https://think.arac-international.org/articles/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.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTArticlecritical-thinkinginformation-resilienceinfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/learn/lessons/understanding-confirmation-bias/https://think.arac-international.org/learn/lessons/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.Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTLessoncritical-thinkinginformation-resilienceinfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/toolkit/resources/claim-sorting-worksheet/https://think.arac-international.org/toolkit/resources/claim-sorting-worksheet/A four-column worksheet for taking apart a paragraph of argument and locating where a disagreement actually sits.Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTToolkit resourcecritical-thinkinginfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/think-lab/fact-or-inference/https://think.arac-international.org/think-lab/fact-or-inference/Sort three statements about the same event into observation, inference, assumption, and value judgment.Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTThink Labcritical-thinkinginfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/learn/lessons/fact-inference-and-opinion/https://think.arac-international.org/learn/lessons/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.Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTLessoncritical-thinkinginfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/learn/lessons/correlation-is-not-causation/https://think.arac-international.org/learn/lessons/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.Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTLessoncritical-thinkinginfo@arac-international.orghttps://think.arac-international.org/learn/lessons/seven-questions-to-ask-before-you-share/https://think.arac-international.org/learn/lessons/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.Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTLessonmedia-literacyinformation-manipulationinfo@arac-international.org