Checkology

Requestor Work Location:

GEC

Requestor Title:

Secondary ELA Curriculum Specialist

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True

Description:

Checkology helps educators teach news literacy by providing free lessons, challenges, exercises, and missions about today’s challenging information landscape. Students will learn how to identify credible information, seek out reliable sources and apply critical thinking skills to separate fact-based content from falsehoods.

URL:

https://get.checkology.org/about/

Purpose/Use/Notes:

Checkology can be used to curate lessons and content to assist with digital literacy, news literacy, and build proficiency in the Utah ELA core standards around evaluating credible sources, avoiding plagiarism, and support journalism classes in junior high and high school.

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Lower Grade Range:

6th Grade

Upper Grade Range:

12th Grade

Category:

6-12 ELA Secondary

Utah State Core Correlation Standard(s):

Is student data shared with the vendor?

True

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