Middle schoolers can't tell real news from sponsored news

Originally published at: https://eduk8.me/2017/02/middle-schoolers-cant-tell-real-news-sponsored-news/

By: filipe ferreira Preteens and teens may appear dazzlingly fluent, flitting among social-media sites, uploading selfies and texting friends. But they’re often clueless about evaluating the accuracy and trustworthiness of what they find. Some 82% of middle-schoolers couldn’t distinguish between an ad labeled “sponsored content” and a real news story on a website, according to…