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<p>In the last section, you learned that middle and high school students have a hard time sorting truth from fiction online. Researchers from the Stanford History Education Group found that Stanford University freshmen and award-winning, tenured history professors also struggled with these same kinds of tasks. But one group of internet users excelled at efficiently and effectively evaluating sources online: fact-checkers at news organizations. In this video, Sam Wineburg explains how these fact checkers aren’t smarter than anyone else; they just search the web very differently. </p>
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<p>Reference</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Wineburg, Sam, & McGrew, Sarah. 2018. <a href="https://purl.stanford.edu/yk133ht8603" target="[object Object]">Lateral Reading and the Nature of Expertise: Reading Less and Learning More When Evaluating Digital Information.</a> <em>Teachers College Record. </em></p>
<p>We provide more research, readings, and resources at the end of this unit.</p>
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