Connections: Fact Check Like a Pro

Thanks for joining the Fact Check Like a Pro event! We know there was a lot packed into a short amount of time and want to hear from you about your takeaways. Here are some questions to get conversation flowing, but don't feel limited to these.

  • What do you notice about how your students draw on intuition, logic, authority, and evidence to test claims?
  • How do you teach students to support and refute claims / counterclaims?
  • Where do you anticipate your students will struggle more--generating strong supports or generating strong refutations?
  • What strategies have you used to help students feel comfortable grappling with competing claims?
  • Are any ideas forming about resources you might create and share with other teachers?

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  • I have focused so much on supporting evidence that I have often neglected the counter evidence. The activities we did tonight reminded me that not only is a counterargument/counterclaim something I want…

  • Give them a sentence frame to use

    • Claim: “I think ___ because ___.”

    • Counterclaim: “On the other hand, some argue ___ since ___.”

  • I teach students by introducing them to a biased opinion on a topic or an incorrect statement about something we have learned about. I ask them why they think that bias and/or statement are incorrect and…

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  • I just did a claim testing activity with my students today...and they definitely struggled with counterclaims.  Interestingly enough, they all gravitated toward evidence as their claim tester, which I attribute to the fact that we have been really pushing this skill in my teamed US classes--every day we are examining sources and using them as evidence, so I think they thought that's what I expected...even when I tried to convince them to use the other claim testers.  

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  • I just did a claim testing activity with my students today...and they definitely struggled with counterclaims.  Interestingly enough, they all gravitated toward evidence as their claim tester, which I attribute to the fact that we have been really pushing this skill in my teamed US classes--every day we are examining sources and using them as evidence, so I think they thought that's what I expected...even when I tried to convince them to use the other claim testers.  

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