Fact-Checking History on TikTok | Evaluating AI #5

A viral TikTok claims Union soldiers built a “concentration camp” where 20,000 people perished. Another video says the term “grandfather clause” comes from the Jim Crow era. How can we check if these claims are true? Sam Wineburg details how students can use chatbots to verify the claims they encounter on social media. History, he suggests, is a story rooted in evidence. Used properly, AI can help students see which accounts hold up. Sam Wineburg is co-founder of the Digital Inquiry Group, professor emeritus at Stanford University, and co-author, with Mike Caulfield, of Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online. The Digital Inquiry Group’s Civic Online Reasoning curriculum gives students research-backed strategies to sort fact from fiction online. Free lessons, assessments, and videos are available at https://cor.inquirygroup.org/. Part 5 of 7. Watch the full series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa195HxUPvNA #AIinEducation #TeachingHistory #FactChecking