Middle School Research Paper

Most people no matter what age believe that everything they see on the internet is real news. Middle schoolers more than 80% of them think every sponsored content is real news. Middle-schoolers couldn’t distinguish between an ad labeled and a real news story on a website, according to a stanford university study of 7,804 students from middle school through college.How do they get prepared to make the decisions about what to believe in, what to send, what to forward to their friends. When they've been given no practice in school? A lot of schools perhaps most aren't doing enough to help kids learn how to separate fact from fiction. But some schools are. Many students judged the credibility of newsy tweets based on how much detail they contained or whether a large photo was attached, rather than on the source.More than two out of three middle schoolers couldn’t see any valid reason to distrust a post written by a bank manager arguing that young people need more financial planning help. And nearly four in 10 high-school students believed, based on the headline, that a photo of funny looking daisies on a photo sharing site provided strong evidence of poisonous conditions near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, even though no source or location was provided with the photo.
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And nearly four in 10 high-school students believed, based on the headline, that a photo of funny looking daisies on a photo sharing site provided strong evidence of poisonous conditions near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, even though no source or location was provided with the