Can fact-checking be taught? A reasoned reading proposal from the blog of M. G. Dutto

Abstract

The ability to discriminate valid content and reliable sources in the uninterrupted waves of information and messages that flood our days, is no longer an option. It is now one of the global skills destined to establish itself as indispensable in the individual patrimony of skills; a necessary achievement for every citizen and an irrepressible need for the well-being of a society. Is there yet another additional task for the school or is it a current declination of its responsibility?