🎓 Ages 15–18 · Grades 9–12 · Media Literacy & Civics

AgoraQuest

Good citizens can judge a source, argue the other side fairly, and disagree about values without being told what to think. Here you practice all three — and on the values questions there is no right answer: you weigh what matters to you and name the trade-off. No jargon, nothing sent anywhere, never a lecture.

The Deliberation Room ★ the main event

Three kinds of thinking in one round: judge a source (lateral reading, credibility, bias, fallacies), steelman the opposing view, and deliberate a values question. On the first two there’s a stronger answer to find; on deliberation there’s no right answer — you own your reasoning. Values are never scored.

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Who you’ll meet

Not mascots — everyday reasoners, each showing one civic-thinking move. You’ll run into them across the room and the kits.

  • Imara — reads laterally — leaves the page to check other sources
  • Dashiell — weighs a source’s credibility by its evidence
  • Noor — spots framing and loaded language (bias)
  • Emre — separates a claim from its evidence
  • Ozan — steelmans — states the other side at its strongest
  • Halvard — names the logical fallacy in an argument
  • Farida — deliberates a values question without a "right" answer
  • Lior — owns a trade-off instead of pretending there isn’t one
  • Talia — the mentor — evaluate, steelman, then deliberate honestly

Check what you know

Sixteen short kits — lateral reading, source credibility, bias & framing, claims & evidence, steelmanning, logical fallacies, and more — anchored to media-literacy and civic-reasoning standards. Hints when you want them; progress stays on this device.

1. Lateral Reading Lateral reading — leave the page to evaluate a source · 25 questions 2. Source Credibility Source credibility — authority, ownership, and funding · 25 questions 3. Bias & Framing Bias and framing — how presentation shapes meaning · 25 questions 4. Claims & Evidence Claims and evidence — claim, warrant, and support · 25 questions 5. Steelmanning Steelmanning — engaging the strongest opposing case · 25 questions 6. Logical Fallacies Logical fallacies — structural flaws in reasoning · 25 questions 7. Rhetoric & Persuasion Rhetoric and persuasion — ethos, pathos, logos, and technique · 25 questions 8. Statistics in the News Statistics in the news — what a number shows and hides · 25 questions 9. Civic Institutions & Process Civic institutions and process — how decisions get made · 25 questions 10. Rights & Responsibilities Rights and responsibilities — balancing a right · 25 questions 11. Deliberation & Common Ground Deliberation and common ground — finding shared interests · 25 questions 12. Propaganda & Manipulation Propaganda and manipulation — recognizing manipulative techniques · 25 questions 13. Media Production Ethics Media production ethics — building an honest message · 25 questions 14. Policy Trade-offs Policy trade-offs — costs, benefits, and who's affected · 25 questions 15. Perspective-Taking Perspective-taking — understanding views across differences · 25 questions 16. Capstone: Deliberate an Issue Capstone — evaluate, steelman, deliberate, and craft a message · 25 questions

How it works

AgoraQuest never tells you what to believe. Where reasoning has a better answer (is this source credible? is this a fallacy?) it helps you find it; where thoughtful people genuinely differ (a values question) it helps you name your value and its trade-off — and it never scores that. Your progress is saved only on this device: no accounts, no ads.