'Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning'

This a report from Stanford Graduate School of Education researchers (Wineburg & McGrew) show how students struggle to effectively evaluate information and are "easily duped.”

• Look carefully at the Assessment Task examples provided.
• What ideas have you generated from the examples, to create your own activities for Years 3 - 6 students?

Listen to 'The Research Files Episode 25: Why young people are easily fooled by fake news' Podcast (10 min)

Sarah McGrew, one of the Standford researchers is interviewed Teacher Magazine (ACER) The Research Files (2017)

• Answer the following questions:
  • How do you currently teach your students to evaluate information online?
  • What do believe are the most crucial elements of online evaluation?
• McGrew's states "Who is behind this and what is their motivation?" to be a really important question for students to use when reading online.
  • How can you take McGrew's quote and create a poster for your students? If you don't have a Canva account, signup and create

Discuss with a colleague about the cultural, social, political, ethical and historic forces that determine who decides what information is credible?

• Create age-appropriate guiding questions for students; prompt activate critical and creative thinking at their grade level

F-6 Scope and Sequence suggests year-level transliteracy and digital citizenship competencies for students

• Record three additional bullet points explaining how students at each year level can select information
  • e.g. F - Year 2 students and those with additional learning needs can select information from online encyclopaedias, click the accessibility tools (audio/highlight/read to) to hear a passage be read aloud

How does having a knowledge of visual literacy assist students to select information?

• What visual literacy lessons can you embed in the curriculum to assist students in selecting information?