Preteens and teens may appear dazzlingly fluent, flitting among social-media sites, uploading selfies and texting friends. But they’re often clueless about evaluating the accuracy and trustworthiness of what they find.
Some 82% of middle-schoolers couldn’t distinguish between an ad labeled “sponsored content” and a real news story on a website, according to a Stanford University study of 7,804 students from middle school through college. The study, set for release Tuesday, is the biggest so far on how teens evaluate information they find online. Many students judged the credibility of newsy tweets based on how much detail they contained or whether a large photo was attached, rather than on the source.
When you visit wttr.in, you get a nice console looking weather display. The site tries to geolocate your position from your IP address, but for some reason it brings up Kenton, United Kingdom for me. You can place a zip or locate in the address and it will pull that location’s weather. A neat way…
I’ve done a lot in the past year. I earned two Oracle Java Certifications, two CompTia Certifications, and freeCodeCamp’s Front End Certification. Each of these take most people many months of preparation, but I did them all in three weeks each. And last but not least, I completed all the coursework necessary to earn a…
Continuing on the “tabs in Chrome” theme comes Toby. Toby is another way to organize, save, and sync your tabs in Google Chrome. As I played with it, I felt like I was working with my Chrome books, but Toby works better than that. By replacing the new tab window, Toby shows you your open and…
Readability, a bookmarking service that also cleaned up web pages, is shutting down September 30th. I’m going to miss the website, I used their Chrome add-on to clean up webpages to read. Readability was a great way to focus on the content of the page, and I recommended the site for students that might be…
