The article “Stanford Researchers Find Students Have Trouble Judging the Credibility of
Information Online” by Brooke Donald shows a research that was performed on middle school testing their basic skills of trustworthiness. High school and college students were tested on key social media conventions as well as to evaluate website credibility to document how students use their skills to know what sources are reliable. According to the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG), the information found on social media is likely to trick students to believe it is true. The author’s thesis is to prove that students throughout their education process have some sort of method to know when fake news is presented on social media.
Evaluation: The purpose
Information Online” by Brooke Donald shows a research that was performed on middle school testing their basic skills of trustworthiness. High school and college students were tested on key social media conventions as well as to evaluate website credibility to document how students use their skills to know what sources are reliable. According to the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG), the information found on social media is likely to trick students to believe it is true. The author’s thesis is to prove that students throughout their education process have some sort of method to know when fake news is presented on social media.
Evaluation: The purpose