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Free educational resources on historical thinking and online reasoning. https://inquirygroup.org
November is National Native American Heritage Month. We have free lessons and assessments to support teaching the histories of Indigenous peoples of the United States and the Americas this month and year-round. Explore our materials: https://inquirygroup.org/native-american-heritage-month
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
In school, students read carefully selected materials. Outside, they scroll through a flood of unfiltered information. How do we bridge this divide? By bringing the digital world into the classroom, not to replace the curriculum, but to make it better. #MediaLiteracyWeek
October 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Skilled users of the internet don't begin with critical thinking. They begin with critical ignoring. They ask, “Do I really know what I’m looking at?” Then, they use the internet to check the internet. #MediaLiteracyWeek
October 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
AI chatbots cite articles that don’t exist and draw on studies that say the opposite from what they claim. The most important thing for students to learn about AI? Information is always wedded to a particular source. #MediaLiteracyWeek
October 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We’ve asked thousands of students to evaluate online sources. Here are the five most common mistakes they make: #MediaLiteracyWeek
October 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Young people are online almost constantly — yet struggle to make sense of the content that streams across their screens. Our Civic Online Reasoning curriculum offers evidence-based resources teachers can use to help students make better decisions online. #MediaLiteracyWeek
October 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Integrating digital literacy into existing coursework boosts students’ online reasoning. Learn more about our work in Illinois weaving Civic Online Reasoning into biology and geography classes in this National Association of State Boards of Education article: https://loom.ly/1LtxxHU
Preparing Students for Informed, Active Citizenship: Lessons from Illinois
Illinois Democracy Schools are a key element of the state’s comprehensive approach.
www.nasbe.org
October 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
September 15 to October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month. We have free lessons and assessments to teach Hispanic, U.S. Latino, and Latin American history this month and year-round. Browse our curriculum: https://www.inquirygroup.org/about/updates/2023/hispanic-heritage-month-materials
September 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
You can still sign up for today’s Beyond the Bubble History Assessments webinar at 4 pm PT/7 pm ET! Join us to explore 150+ free, document-based history assessments that reveal student thinking and can be scored in minutes.

Register for today’s webinar: https://loom.ly/9gb-MB8
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Join the Digital Inquiry Group for a free webinar on Beyond the Bubble history assessments.
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September 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
You can still sign up for today’s Reading Like a Historian Lessons webinar at 4 pm PT/7 pm ET! Join us to explore 200+ document-based lessons that engage students in historical inquiry.

Register for today’s webinar: https://loom.ly/mxEyVlU
September 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
We’re honored to be recognized by @librarycongress.bsky.social as part of its 2025 Literacy Awards, particularly for our work integrating digital literacy into history instruction.
September 15, 2025 at 10:31 PM
What caused the 1974 Puerto Rican Riots? In our new lesson, students analyze historical documents to investigate both immediate and systemic causes. https://inquirygroup.org/history-lessons/1974-puerto-rican-riots
The 1974 Puerto Rican Riots | Digital Inquiry Group
All historical events have multiple causes. Part of the work of historians is to identify both immediate and systemic causes of events and to analyze the relationships between causes. In this lesson, students analyze historical documents to investigate the question: What caused the 1974 Puerto Rican Riots?
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September 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
You can still register for today's webinar at 4pm PT/7 pm ET on sorting fact from fiction online! We’ll cover the research behind the Civic Online Reasoning curriculum, review materials, and discuss how these resources can be integrated into classrooms. Sign up now: https://loom.ly/zryviKY
September 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
You can still sign up for today’s Beyond the Bubble History Assessments webinar at 4 pm PT/ 7 pm ET! Join us to explore 150+ free, document-based history assessments that reveal student thinking and can be scored in minutes.

Register for today’s webinar: https://loom.ly/WBXUT1o
September 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Can students evaluate the credibility of a social media video about a Supreme Court decision? Our new assessment gauges students’ ability to read laterally and assess whether the organization behind the video is trustworthy. https://inquirygroup.org/history-assessments/dennis-v-united-states
Dennis v. United States | Digital Inquiry Group
This assessment gauges students’ ability to evaluate the credibility of a social media video for providing information about a Supreme Court decision. To answer the question successfully, students must read laterally about the organization that posted the video and evaluate whether it’s a trustworthy source of information. 
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September 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
You can still sign up for today’s webinar at 4 pm PT/7 pm ET! Join us to learn tips for integrating digital literacy in your classroom using free Civic Online Reasoning lessons designed for use in different subjects.

Register now: https://loom.ly/XRuAYEM
August 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
During the Second Red Scare, the Supreme Court ruled that membership in the Communist Party amounted to advocating the violent overthrow of the government. Just six years later, the Court changed its mind. Our new lessons asks students to investigate why. https://loom.ly/49K2pVQ
Second Red Scare and the Supreme Court | Digital Inquiry Group
At the height of the Second Red Scare, the Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a Communist Party USA leader under the Smith Act, deciding that membership in the party amounted to advocating the violent overthrow of the government. Just six years later, the Supreme Court reversed course. In this lesson, students contextualize two Supreme Court decisions and reason about why the Supreme Court changed its mind.  
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August 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
AI images are everywhere — and are increasingly indistinguishable from genuine photos. Our new assessment gauges students’ abilities to reason critically about a social media post that uses an AI-generated image to support a dubious historical claim. https://loom.ly/cSsmswM
Chinatown Image | Digital Inquiry Group
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to generate realistic images of the past. Without careful consideration of where an image comes from, it could be easy to be fooled by a bad actor misrepresenting the past with an AI image. This assessment gauges students’ abilities to reason critically about a social media post that uses an AI-generated image to support a dubious claim about the past.
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August 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Between 1896 and 1906, Arnold Genthe took hundreds of photographs in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Our new lesson asks students to evaluate the strengths and limitations of these photographs as evidence of the past. https://inquirygroup.org/history-lessons/historical-chinatown-photos
Historical Chinatown Photos | Digital Inquiry Group
Arnold Genthe took hundreds of photographs in San Francisco’s Chinatown from 1896 to 1906. Genthe’s extensive portfolio provides historians with a trove of evidence of what life was like in Chinatown in the decade leading up to the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. This lesson asks students to think critically about Genthe’s photographs and evaluate their strengths and limitations as evidence of the past.
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August 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
There’s still time to register for today’s webinar at 4 pm PT/7 pm ET! Participants will experience a model lesson, receive access to curricular resources, and identify strategies for integrating digital literacy into history instruction. Sign up now: https://loom.ly/_hX5m5E
August 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Did the term “grandfather clause” originate from a voter suppression scheme in Southern states during the Jim Crow era? Our new assessment asks students to verify a TikTok claim using credible sources. https://inquirygroup.org/history-assessments/grandfather-clause
Grandfather Clause | Digital Inquiry Group
Use this assessment to gauge students’ skills at verifying claims on social media. This task asks students whether a claim made on TikTok is accurate. The video claims that the term “grandfather clause” comes from a disenfranchisement scheme common in Southern states in the Jim Crow era. By consulting credible sources, students should determine that the claim is true. 
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August 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
How can students learn what to trust if schools never show them the kinds of information they see on their phones? DIG Co-Founder Sam Wineburg joined The Squiz to talk about the shift from an analog to a digital age, and how schools need to respond.

Full episode: pod.link/1477008816/e...
August 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
You can still register for tomorrow's webinar at 4pm PT/7 pm ET on sorting fact from fiction online! We’ll cover the research behind the Civic Online Reasoning curriculum, review materials, and discuss how these resources can be integrated into classrooms. Sign up now: https://loom.ly/zPikcPk
August 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Reposted by Digital Inquiry Group
🎙️ In this episode of School’s In, GSE Professor Emeritus Sam Wineburg discusses digital literacy and how to help students navigate the internet in the era of AI and fake news.

🎧 Listen to the full episode: lnk.to/SchoolsInSM

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July 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM