A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning.

In the November 2016 Executive Summary, the researchers shared:

When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. That was certainly the case in our experience. However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. Overall, young people’s ability to reason about the information on the Internet can be summed up in one word: bleak.

Did you ever wonder how your own students might perform on those dozens of tasks?  You can now find out.

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR.

Using everyday digital content, the COR paper and online assessments directly connect to the questions posed in SHEG’s study and engage learners in credibility decision-making around three COR Competencies:

The twenty assessments include:

• Historical Thinking Chart
• Civil Rights Movement Photos
• NAACP Letters
• Moctezuma’s Zoo 
• Public Housing
• The Gold Rush and San Francisco
• Annexation of Hawaii
• Hurrican Katrina

Available in both English and Spanish, the Historical Thinking Chart and the Sourcing Poster are but two of the excellent Introductory Materials teachers across the disciplines will display in the classrooms and thank you for sharing!

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