High school students are unprepared to judge the credibility of information on the internet, according to Stanford researchers

Posted on AllSides November 18th, 2019
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With the 2020 presidential election approaching, new research by Stanford education scholars finds that prospective young voters are poorly equipped to evaluate the sources of online content.

Despite mounting attention to the threat of “fake news” on the internet and efforts nationwide to improve digital media literacy, high school students still have difficulty discerning fact from fiction online, according to new research from scholars at Stanford Graduate School of Education.

New research shows that despite efforts to improve digital literacy, prospective young voters still have difficulty telling fact from fiction...

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https://news.stanford.edu/2019/11/18/high-school-students-unequipped-spot-fake-news/

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