NLP Educator Booklet - Flipbook - Page 8
For teachers
For students
Checkology includes interactive lessons and gamelike exercises in which students can practice their
skills. Teachers can customize and sequence
lessons based on learning objectives. Through the
teacher dashboard, educators can monitor student
progress and view completed work, as well as add
a co-teacher to classes. Checkology encourages
both independent and collaborative learning and
allows students to progress at their own pace.
Interactive features enable students to learn the
skills and tools of professional fact-checkers and
apply them to debunking missions. They can play
the role of reporter in a simulation of a breaking
news scene as they learn the standards of quality
journalism. Or they can click on an interactive
map of the world to “travel” to a country to hear
about press freedoms from a local journalist.
What your peers say
Checkology helps
students develop news
literacy knowledge, skills
and habits of mind.
85%
96%
of educators said in a
survey that Checkology
was better than other
e-learning tools they have
used in the classroom.
of educators said in a survey
that Checkology was better
than other news or media
literacy resources they have
used in the classroom.
get.checkology.org/impact
“I think it is very dangerous when
people don’t know what they’re
reading. I think this class changed
me in a very big way. I felt like it
helped me realize that I actually
had a voice that I could use.”
—Ande McMorris, student,
Cedar Falls High School,
Cedar Falls, Iowa
The value of our work is illustrated by the bipartisan support it garners:
In an April 2021 speech at Stanford University
about the threat of disinformation, former
President Barack Obama noted that NLP
is doing “great work…building new tools to
help people separate fact from 昀椀ction.”
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Teaching
Teaching news
news literacy
literacy
In a USA Today op-ed in December 2021, former
President George W. Bush’s Secretary of Education
Margaret Spellings wrote that NLP is “dedicated to
making students smart, active consumers of news
and information,” which helps “strengthen students’
mental immune system against deception.”
