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Sperry, Chris; Scheibe, Cyndy – Social Education, 2020
In early February 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) named a new kind of media consumption ailment, saying, "The 2019-nCoV outbreak and response has been accompanied by a massive 'infodemic'--an over-abundance of information--some accurate and some not that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Media Literacy, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Crovitz, Darren; Smoot, W. Scott – English Journal, 2009
As online research has become an increasingly standard activity for middle school and high school students, Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org) has simultaneously emerged as the bane of many teachers who include research-focused assignments in their courses. An online encyclopedia that allows anyone to edit its entries, Wikipedia has educators…
Descriptors: Credibility, Writing Assignments, Writing Instruction, High School Students