Don’t tell me how to fact-check; show me, and let me try! A media literacy intervention with sixth-graders
Thomas Nygren; Carl-Anton Werner Axelsson · DOAJ Open Access Articles
This study examines how different educational approaches related to "Fria Ordets Dag" (Free Speech Day), a media literacy program by the Swedish public service, affect the ability of 859 sixth-graders to evaluate news and misinformation. Findings indicate that verbal instructions from a professional fact-checker and animations to model online fact-checking w…