Learning How to Separate Fake from Real News: Scalable Digital Tutorials Promoting Students’ Civic Online Reasoning

Carl-Anton Werner Axelsson, Mona Guath and Thomas Nygren
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Carl-Anton Werner Axelsson: Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, 751 05 Uppsala, Sweden
Mona Guath: Department of Education, Uppsala University, 750 02 Uppsala, Sweden
Thomas Nygren: Department of Education, Uppsala University, 750 02 Uppsala, Sweden

Future Internet, 2021, vol. 13, issue 3, 1-18

Abstract: With the rise of misinformation, there is a great need for scalable educational interventions supporting students’ abilities to determine the trustworthiness of digital news. We address this challenge in our study by developing an online intervention tool based on tutorials in civic online reasoning that aims to teach adolescents how to critically assess online information comprising text, videos and images. Our findings from an online intervention with 209 upper secondary students highlight how observational learning and feedback support their ability to read laterally and improve their performance in determining the credibility of digital news and social media posts.

Keywords: civic online reasoning; source criticism; lateral reading; observational learning; fact-checking tutorials (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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