Today's teens have grown up online. They study online. And surely they get their news online. But because they are so comfortable with the Internet, they seldom question news stories online.
Now William Colglazier, a history teacher at a high school in America, is teaching his students how to think critically (批判性地) about online information and recognize a false news story.
His idea came from a study on people's online reasoning (推理) at Stanford University. Most middle school students in the study could not tell the difference between an advertisement and a news story, and high school and college students fully trusted the websites ending in ".org".
The good news is that, according to Colglazier, once teens realize they've been cheated, they have a strong will to tell the truth from lies. Some of the advice that Colglazier offers his students includes moving off the site to find more information about the site, the writer's motivations (动机) and the organization behind the news story.
He hopes more kids would think critically when they read news online. "" he said. "If people can't tell real news from fake news, the results can be frightening."
A. They make friends online.
B. The Internet is both beautiful and ugly.
C. As students, we should recognize false news.
D. Colglazier shared some of his courses with other teens in Teen Vogue.
E. They need some advice on how to find answers and how to recognize.
F. The study found that young people have poor ability to tell truth from lies.
G. The study found students have poor ability to reason about the information on the Internet.
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