Inside a Class Teaching Teens to Stop Scrolling and Think Critically

An Education Week article highlights a course designed to teach high school students how to critically evaluate digital content. Developed by Assistant Professor Sarah McGrew, the "Digital Civic Inquiry" course teaches skills like lateral reading—checking multiple sources to verify information—and click restraint—resisting the urge to immediately click on the first search result. 

McGrew emphasizes the value of these strategies in helping students verify the credibility of sources and preventing the spread of misinformation. 

“We should train ourselves to think about where the information we see is coming from and whether we trust that source,” she says. 

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