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Many Truths, Many Knowledges, Many Forms of Reason: Understanding Middle-School Student Approaches to Sources of Information on the Internet
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Laura Scholes; Sarah McDonald; Garth Stahl; Barbara Comber – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
Sourcing information related to socio-scientific issues requires sophisticated literacies to read and evaluate conflicting accounts often signified by disagreement among experts, multiple solutions or misinformation. Much of the previous work exploring how young people approach conflicting information has tended to focus on students in the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Information Sources, Internet, Search Strategies