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Classroom Connection: Fact Check Like a Pro

Megan Suits
If you joined  claim testing PD event tonight, you got to practice with tools to grow students' skills with claim testers: intuition, logic, authority, and evidence.
So here's a claim: OER Project teachers are the best. Go ahead and back up that claim with some evidence. Tell us your takeaways, ideas, and stories about teaching students to fact-check information.
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  • They not only share high-quality resources but also model how to teach students to think like historians. For example, in the Fact-Check Like a Pro session, I saw practical strategies for guiding students beyond intuition and authority toward using evidence to test claims. One big takeaway for me is the power of modeling how to question sources—asking who wrote it, why it was written, and what’s missing—to help students see that fact-checking is about investigation, not just memorization. In my classroom, I’ve noticed students often default to “what feels right” or “what the textbook says,” so I’m excited to adapt OER’s claim-testing activities to push them toward weighing competing evidence and making reasoned judgments.

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  • They not only share high-quality resources but also model how to teach students to think like historians. For example, in the Fact-Check Like a Pro session, I saw practical strategies for guiding students beyond intuition and authority toward using evidence to test claims. One big takeaway for me is the power of modeling how to question sources—asking who wrote it, why it was written, and what’s missing—to help students see that fact-checking is about investigation, not just memorization. In my classroom, I’ve noticed students often default to “what feels right” or “what the textbook says,” so I’m excited to adapt OER’s claim-testing activities to push them toward weighing competing evidence and making reasoned judgments.

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