3b. Knowledge Constructor | English Language Arts | Grades 6-12
To develop students’ research skills, teachers present students with a series of statements thematically related to a topic of study, with some statements being true and some being false. Students are then tasked to locate digital information that either supports the statement as being credible or discredits them. Students are to record the process they used to locate the information they used to prove or discredit the statements along with explaining how the information they located proves or discredits them.
EdTech for Assessing the Credibility of Sources and Discredited Claims
This teaching strategy requires students to analyze the credibility of statements presented to them by searching for additional resources that confirm or dismiss the statements' credibility and then share their findings along with the process they used in order to arrive at them.