To be an informed citizen in today's information-rich environment, individuals must able to evaluate information they encounter on the Internet. However, teachers currently have limited options if want assess students' evaluations of digital content. In response, we created a range short tasks that civic online reasoning—the ability effectively search for, evaluate, and verify social political online. Assessments ranged from paper-and-pencil open Internet delivered via Google Forms. We...

Background/Context The Internet has democratized access to information but in so doing opened the floodgates misinformation, fake news, and rank propaganda masquerading as dispassionate analysis. Despite mounting attention problem of online misinformation growing agreement that digital literacy efforts are important, prior research offers few concrete ideas about what skilled evaluations look like. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus Study Our purpose this study was seek out those who...

The Internet has democratized access to information but in so doing opened the floodgates misinformation, fake news, and rank propaganda masquerading as dispassionate analysis. To investigate how people determine credibility of digital information, we sampled 45 individuals: 10 Ph.D. historians, professional fact checkers, 25 Stanford University undergraduates. We observed them they evaluated live websites searched for on social political issues. Historians students often fell victim easily...

Background Young people increasingly turn to the Internet for information about social and political issues. However, they struggle evaluate trustworthiness of encounter online. Aims This pilot study investigated whether a focused curricular intervention could improve university students’ ability make sound judgements credibility. Sample Participants ( n = 67) were students in four sections ‘critical thinking writing’ course at on West Coast United States. Course randomly assigned treatment...

In recent years — and especially since the 2016 presidential election numerous media organizations, newspapers, policy advocates have made efforts to help Americans become more careful consumers of information they see online. K-12 higher education, main approach has been provide students with checklists can use assess credibility individual websites. However, checklist is outdated. It would be far better teach young people follow lead professional fact-checkers: When confronted by a new...

Both the Common Core Standards for Literacy and College, Career, Civic Life Framework Social Studies State underscore importance of classroom discussion development high-level literacy subject-matter knowledge. Yet, remains stubbornly absent in social studies classrooms, which tend toward rote memorization textbook work. In this article, we discuss our efforts to design practice-based methods instruction that prepares preservice teachers facilitate text-based, whole-class discussion. We...

Prior research suggests that high school students often struggle to evaluate online content; however, with support, they can learn conduct more effective digital evaluations. This study extends our understanding of how attend the source information and role instruction may play in changing students' evaluation sources. Reporting on pre- posttest responses (N = 420) who participated an in-school intervention, this made progress learning investigate web content reading laterally. Findings have...

Social studies education and research can must play a central role in sustaining democratic societies. As we commemorate the 50th anniversary of this vital journal that aims to strengthen social education, societies face numerous serious challenges. Although today's circumstances are unique, many our current challenges have existed (and will continue exist) some form throughout history democracy. In article, scholars from various sub-fields explore how research, scholarship, practice field...

•Teacher candidates can facilitate text-based discussion when prepared.•Instructional scaffolds assist in facilitating discussion.•Assignments, questioning sequences, and prepared materials support enactment.•Candidates still struggle to connect lesson's learning goal.

Teachers need new instructional strategies and systemwide support to educate students about the threats that racism, hyper-partisanship, disinformation pose democracy. Nicole Mirra, Sarah McGrew, Joseph Kahne, Antero Godina Garcia, Brendesha Tynes explore three major elements of digital citizenship education — safety civility, media analysis, student voice introduce evidence-based principles can deepen teaching learning these topics prepare for future civic engagement.

A growing number of educational interventions have shown that students can learn the strategies fact checkers use to efficiently evaluate online information. Measuring effectiveness these has required new approaches assessment because extant measures reveal too little about processes live internet sources. In this paper, we analyze two types assessments developed meet need for measures. We describe what student thinking and how they provide practitioners, policymakers, researchers options...

Given the current threat posed by toxic digital content, preparing students to evaluate online sources cannot be relegated a single subject area—this instruction should happen across curriculum. This article focuses on materials designed teach information areas. ninth-grade biology and world geography teachers taught series of curriculum-embedded lessons based following design principles: (a) Focus core question strategy; (b) engage in evaluating real content; (c) feature cognitive...

High school students need support learning to evaluate online information. Scholarship in the last several years has explored how provide this via lessons that explicitly teach evaluation strategies. In study, we analyzed classroom conversations two high government classrooms during taught lateral reading, strategy of leaving a website or post investigate its source external resources. Although read laterally, they did not directly introduce factors influence credibility source, especially...

Despite evidence of its benefits, discussion remains rare in history/social science classrooms. To address this problem, communities teacher educators (TEs) have begun supporting novices to approximate facilitation. Some scholars are concerned that turn practice will come at the cost content preparation. Focusing specifically on rehearsals facilitation three methods courses, our analysis investigates whether, how, and what ways TEs worked while engaging novice teachers practicing We found...

This study investigated how high school students evaluated online information on social and political topics. Eighteen juniors seniors, at a that attempts to leverage technology personalize learning, thought aloud as they completed reasoning tasks. Three themes emerged from analyses of think-aloud data. First, assembled ad hoc lists surface features (e.g., website's layout or top-level domain) used render decisions about whether content was trustworthy. Next, judged the usability an article...

This study investigated an approach to teaching students evaluate online information in the context of a high school history class. Over course semester, I collaborated with teacher teach and refine series eight lessons focused on civic reasoning. We aimed use students' historical reading as bridge help them learn sources; however, tensions also arose between negotiated content focus lessons. asked investigate questions contemporary ramifications instead strictly questions, but we still...