Working with the Poynter Institute and the Local Media Association and with support from Google.org (a charity founded by the technology giant), Wineburg and his team have created a civic online reasoning course that teaches students to evaluate information by reading laterally. Source: Schoolkids Are Falling Victim to Disinformation and Conspiracy Fantasies – Scientific American
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Schoolkids Are Falling Victim to Disinformation and Conspiracy Fantasies – Scientific American
They found that whereas historians and students were often fooled by manipulative Web sites, journalism fact-checkers were not. In addition, their methods of analysis differed significantly: historians and students tried to assess the validity of Web sites and information by reading vertically, navigating within a site to learn more about it, but fact-checkers read laterally, […]
