How Teachers Are Trying To Help Students Identify ‘Real’ News

Teachers say their students are often tech-savvy, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to being media-savvy.

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When a story pops up on social media with an outrageous headline, it can often take a few minutes to realize it is not from a credible source. New research from the Reboot Foundation shows it’s a problem for kids as well as adults.

More than one-third of eighth-graders in the U.S. say they “rarely” or “never” learn how to judge the reliability of sources, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

Spotting The Truth

Teachers say their students are often tech-savvy, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to being media-savvy.