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A shocking number of young people can’t separate fact from fiction online

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The study, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning , was produced by researchers at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. The researchers created 56 tasks for students in 12 states, and collected 7,804 student responses from January 2015 until June 2016.

Civics

Civics Advocacy Elementary School Middle School

What these teens learned about the Internet may shock you!

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The exercise was part of “Civic Online Reasoning,” a series of news-literacy lessons being developed by Stanford researchers and piloted by teachers at a few dozen schools. “They got duped.”. Or, as one student put it, loudly, “fudge nuggets!”. This isn’t just a problem with kids,” said Wineburg.

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K-12 Primary Sources Civics Social Studies

A shocking number of young people can’t separate fact from fiction online

What these teens learned about the Internet may shock you!

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