Digital Citizenship Breakouts

A Critical Thinking Online Breakout (CTOB) is a browser-based digital escape room built for reasoning, not recall. Students read six short clues — one a deliberate decoy — and use them to open four locks. Each lock reveals a one-sentence reason that names why the answer follows from the evidence. There are no logins, nothing is graded, and Start over is always one tap away, so the cost of thinking out loud and being wrong is zero.

CTOBs run on the CLEAR thinking process — a simple critical-thinking checklist students can carry into any claim, message, or source they meet online. Every lock is a small CLEAR rep: the decoy trains students to weigh Evidence and reject a true-but-irrelevant fact; the “strong evidence” lock makes the strong / weak / missing distinction explicit; and the revealed reason models the Response. Digital citizenship is judgment — and CLEAR is how students practice it.