{"id":4131,"date":"2019-11-15T12:36:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T12:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=4131"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:27","slug":"just-2-of-school-students-can-critically-assess-information-found-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2019\/11\/15\/just-2-of-school-students-can-critically-assess-information-found-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Just 2% of school students can critically assess information found online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest findings from <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iea.nl%2Fnews-events%2Fnews%2Ficils-2018-results&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7Ccc79a6e5875d43a78f6608d769bdf6c7%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637094136922064480&amp;sdata=dT8HAFwZeOjBQLDJybUdsGf2fGKg1Vn%2BAdMUof5Nc3Y%3D&amp;reserved=0\">The second cycle of IEA\u2019s International Computer and Information Literacy Study.<\/a>\u00a0 ICILS is a large-scale, international assessment of grade 8 students\u2019 computer and information literacy and computational thinking skills.\u00a0 It addresses questions relating to their preparedness to study and work in a digital future.\u00a0 There are overall and national breakdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Something which might help them:\u00a0Using the Internet Archive to check Wikipedia references.\u00a0 A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.archive.org%2F2019%2F10%2F29%2Fweaving-books-into-the-web-starting-with-wikipedia%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7Ccc79a6e5875d43a78f6608d769bdf6c7%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637094136922034496&amp;sdata=taYBko5KxwIxyrS3JP%2F8jsEtkT7BOSmDeiRmPwjOYoQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\">new initiative<\/a> to enable users to check the\u00a0 references on Wikipedia. Many thousands now link through directly to sources on the internet archive. Of course this only works for items available there but it is a great start for those with concerns about the accuracy of the referencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest findings from The second cycle of IEA\u2019s International Computer and Information Literacy Study.\u00a0 ICILS is a large-scale, international assessment of grade 8 students\u2019 computer and information literacy and computational thinking skills.\u00a0 It addresses questions relating to their preparedness to study and work in a digital future.\u00a0 There are overall and national breakdowns. Something which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[178,61],"class_list":["post-4131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-media-and-communication","tag-children","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4132,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions\/4132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}