Helping Young People Separate Fact From Fiction
Newsy
Experts say there's a misconception that just because young people are proficient at using digital devices, they're also good at making sense of info.
Researchers at the Stanford History Education Group completed a national survey of more than 3,000 American high schoolers looking at how they evaluate real sources online. Joel Breakstone, who heads the Stanford Group, says "it's the largest study to date of its kind."
Breakstone has been studying news literacy among high schoolers for the past six years. He says they found that students struggle to make even basic evaluations about the validity of online information.
"Students had trouble, for instance, when we presented students with a website that denied humans' role in global warming," he said.
