Abstract

KRISCAUTZKY, Marina  and  FERREIRO, Emilia. Assessing the reliability of information on the Internet: How readers aged between 9 and 12 confront the challenge. Perfiles educativos [online]. 2018, vol.40, n.159, pp.16-34. ISSN 0185-2698.

Today's youngpeople use the Internetfor their homework, requiring them to apply reliability criteria. This is the subject of this research, which uses an innovative interviewingtechnique with 9 to 12-year old children. The assignment was to solve aproblem about the discrepancy in information about the mummification process in Ancient Egypt. The children were interviewed in pairs within the school environment; they had access to an internet-enabled computer and could search freely for 45 to 60 minutes. Camtasia software recorded every movement on the screen and all verbalized communication. We analyzed four dominant reliability criteria, detailing the search procedures and exchanges between the children. Two criteria show that, from the age of nine, children can focus on relevant aspects of internet sites or make inferences on the list of results generated by search engines, indicatingstrong intellectual activity and not the “copy/paste” method of concernto teachers.

Keywords : Digital literacy; New readers; School homework; Reliability of information; Basic education; Use of ICT in education; Validation of information.

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