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

The Hechinger Report

The researchers created 56 tasks for students in 12 states, and collected 7,804 student responses from January 2015 until June 2016. Whether this bounty will make us smarter and better informed or more ignorant and narrow-minded will depend on our awareness of this problem and our educational response to it.

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One state is poised to teach media literacy starting in kindergarten 

The Hechinger Report

A 2019 report from the Stanford History Education Group found that high school students had “difficulty discerning fact from fiction online.”. In 2016, Polites, the state advocacy leader for nonprofit Media Literacy Now, began to contact her state legislators, advocating for an “information literacy” bill being proposed at the time.

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