The research also found just 15 per cent of students have appropriate strategies and criteria to help them evaluate credible ...
Students have difficulty evaluating online content: new research
Half of Year 8 students trust adults more than the internet for information, while about a third would accept content as true if it was repeated by multiple online sources, new Australian Catholic University research shows.
new modes of communication required new literacies to help students interact with search engines, hyperlinked webpages, popups, alerts, notifications, and links, and understand how to evaluate the credibility of sources of information.