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.
Applicationize – Convert Web Apps to Desktop Apps Google is deprecating Chrome apps for Mac, X, And windows. But, Applicationize can still be used to create apps for Chrome OS and chrome books. What this means, is that if there is a website you want to use with your students, you can use Applicationize to…
Create, share, and read books at StoryJumper. For another option to digitally publish student work, check out StoryJumper. The site is free for creating, sharing, and reading, there is only a price if you want to print out the story or if you want to order a physical copy of the book. Students can either use…
WordPress.com has released an add-on for Google Docs that allows saving a Google Doc as a draft. To get started, you will need to install add-on for Google Docs. For self-hosted WordPress sites, you will also need a WordPress.com username and have the WordPress Jetpack plugin installed. WordPress.com users already have this set up. After…
