Evidence
Trace claims to sources, dates, methods, uncertainty, and original material.
Offline adult civic learning
Turn public questions through a clearer light.
Civic Prism 250 helps adults distinguish evidence, interpretation, values, proposals, tradeoffs, and process before a thoughtful discussion.
Independence boundary: Civic Prism 250 is an independent educational resource from Common Sense 250. It is not a government service, election authority, campaign, voting tool, legal adviser, or source for current voting deadlines or legal requirements.
One question.
Four reasoning lenses.
No lens is sufficient alone. Turn among them to separate what can be checked, what matters, what follows, and who decides.
Values
Name the principles in tension without pretending every factual claim is equal.
Tradeoffs
Compare benefits, burdens, opportunity costs, side effects, and reversibility.
Process
Ask who has authority, where participation enters, and how review occurs.
A workshop, not a feed.
The Android app requests no Internet permission and contains no account, ads, analytics, public profile, political-opinion input, or personalized persuasion.
Turn the prism dial
Start with a bounded question and examine it through four distinct modes of reasoning.
Sort before debating
Practice fact, interpretation, value, and proposal distinctions with bundled examples.
Read 33 folios
Use evidence, assumption, value, and open-question rails beside each lesson.
Protect every stage
Frame, listen, examine, trade off, and close without recording audio or attendance.
Draw a second look
Eight neutral prompts with no winner, answer history, score, or ideology label.
Keep provenance visible
Separate primary public sources, organization statements, and educational references.
Common ground without forced consensus
Agreement can be narrow and still useful.
Record shared evidence, a value, a fair next process, or one source question—while preserving principled differences accurately.
33 folios, five shelves.
Evergreen learning avoids live election deadlines. Current rules, notices, ballots, registration, results, and legal requirements belong to the responsible authority's current official source.
Evidence quality
Provenance, method, date, relevance, and correction.
Competing values
Name tension without false equivalence.
Respectful disagreement
Critique claims without diminishing people.
Proposal pathways
Ask about actor, authority, input, decision, and review.
Accessible participation
Design for more than one way to enter and contribute.
No forced victory
Record learning, agreement, difference, and next checks.