An essential part of online research is the ability to critically evaluate information. This includes the ability to read and evaluate its level of accuracy, reliability and bias. When we recently as
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Yet research tells us that middle schoolers:
* "are more concerned with content relevance than with credibility."
* "rarely attend to source features such as author, venue or publication type to evaluate reliability and author perspective.
* "their judgments are often vague, superficial and lack reasoned justification."
What should we do?
1. Teach the Dimensions of Critical Thinking - Relevance, Accuracy, Bias/Perspective and Reliabilty
2. Model and Practice - Use demonstration lessons to focus on the four dimensions above
3. Prompting - Provide written prompts to help guide students; have them cross-check claims through more than one source
4. Help them become healthy skeptics
More information on these factors may be found in the post.