KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: How do kids and teenagers perceive what they read _________ 1? Can they tell real news apart from fake news or _____2? A new study from Stanford University asked more than 7,800 students to ________3 online articles and news sources. And the results, says lead author Sam Wineburg, are bleak.
Large portions of the students - at times as much as ___4 or ___5 percent - had trouble judging the credibility of the news they ____6. Wineburg is a professor of education and history at Stanford, and I asked him earlier today to describe one of the tests they used.
SAM WINEBURG: We ________7 them a picture of daisies that looked like they were deformed. There was a claim on a website that they were the result of the nuclear ______8 at the Fukushima district in Japan. The photograph had no attribution. There was nothing that _________9 that it was from anywhere.
And we asked students, is - does this photograph ________10 proof that the kind of nuclear disaster caused these aberrations in nature? And we _____11 that over 80 percent of the high school students that we _____12 this to them ____13 an extremely difficult time making that determination. They ____14 ask where it came from. They _____15 verify it. They simply ________16 the picture as fact.
MCEVERS: So what do you think can be _____17 about this?
WINEBURG: We simply have not caught up to the way these sources of information are influencing the kinds of conceptions that we develop on a day-to-day basis. But the only way that we can ___________18 these kinds of ________19 are through educational programs and recognizing that the kinds of things that we worry about - these - the ability to determine what is ________20 or not _______21- that is the new basic skill in our society.
MCEVERS: So you're talking about programs to just educate people from the get-go about the _______22 that they use and the information that they get on them and how - what would that look like? What would that sound like in school?
WINEBURG: Right now, Kelly, in many schools there are internet _______23that direct students to previously vetted sites and reliable _______24 of information.
But what _______25 when they leave school and they take out their phone and they look at their Twitter feed? How do they become prepared to make the ________26 about what to _________27, what to forward, what to post to their friends when they've given no practice in doing those kinds of things in school?
And so consequently what we see is a rash of fake news going on that people pass on without ________28. And we really can't blame young people because we've never ________29 them to do otherwise.
http://www.npr.org/2016/11/22/503052574/stanford-study-finds-most-students-vulnerable-to-fake-news
STANFORD STUDY FINDS MOST STUDENTS VULNERABLE TO FAKE NEWS
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Number of students in the study | |
What did they show to the students? | |
What did they tell the students about it? | |
What question did they ask to the students? | |
How many answered positively? |
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STANFORD STUDY FINDS MOST STUDENTS VULNERABLE TO FAKE NEWS
Questions:
Number of students in the study | |
What did they show to the students? | |
What did they tell the students about it? | |
What question did they ask to the students? | |
How many answered positively? |
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