Sam Wineburg: How to improve American students’ fact-checking skills
The Future of Everything
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The ULA Foundation's Survey of High School Students
The study was commissioned by the ULA Foundation, which said it needed a national sample of students that would give us better data. We arranged every single student to have a live internet connection and look at the actual kinds of digital content that comes across their screens. And just to give you a sense of what we found, one of the tasks that we had students do was to look at a Facebook video. It claimed that there was large-scale voter fraud in the 2016 Democratic primaries for the president. Now let me just ask you, did you create this or was this a real video that somebody created? This was a real video going viral.
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