We’re still teaching history using only print texts even as kids are being historicized online by Holocaust deniers and Lost-Causers. We’re teaching science in an era when online anti-vaxxers gain traction by using scientific language to deceive and intimidate.  Sam Wineburg, The internet is sowing mass confusion. We must rethink how we teach kids every subject. Couple… Continue reading

OK, maybe you’re just here for the video. I would be. Watch the demo of Check Please, and then continue downpage for the theory of change behind it. Watched it? OK, here’s the backstory. Last November we won an award from RTI International and the Rita Allen Foundation to work on a “fact-checking tutorial generator”… Continue reading

There’s a lot of things that set our approach at the Digital Polarization Initiative apart from most previous initiatives. But the biggest thing is this: we start from the environment in which students are most likely to practice online literacy skills, and in that environment attention is the scarcity. The idea that scarce attention forms the… Continue reading