Critical Thinking: News and Media Literacy

This online activity tests your ability to recognize bias, prejudice and hate propaganda on the Internet and in other media.

Bad News is an online game in which you must spread sensationalistic lies in order to get more followers. This game helps to inoculate students against online misinformation.

Cat Park is based on “active inoculation” theory. Much as vaccinations work by exposing subjects to an innocuous strain of a virus in order to trigger an immune response, empirical studies indicate that the controlled experience of disinformation through a game can build cognitive resistance to disinformation in the real world.

This fantastic infographic is interactive. Students click on conspiracy theory names to get more information. The site acknowledges actual conspiracies that have occurred and then looks the plausibility of other conspiracies that have been popular.

This gamified interactive platform helps to increase healthy skepticism for conspiracy theories. Pick a conspiracy theory you think might be true and see if it can survive the test of your own critical thinking investigation.

This mobile app helps students to ‘prebunk’ various forms of climate denial misinformation by with a gamified quiz experience. Learn to identify the fallacies of logic and rhetorical tricks used to manipulate opinion with a fun interactive format that challenges kids aged 10 - 18 to think critically and independently.

Kialo is an interactive way to both engage in online debates, as well as understand how complex issues can be multi-faceted. Each fork in the logic tree shows arguments for and against particular claims, with the community voting for the strength of each nested argument. The result is a fantastic interactive, visual map of the issue.

This is a collection of engaging "missions" during which students read a story on a social network feed; the story might be entirely true, entirely false, or somewhere in between.

An online game for students that will help them hone their skills at identifying fake news