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Informing Science + IT Education Conference 2003 Proceedings
| Informing Science + IT Education Conference |
| Pori, Finland June 24-27, 2003 |
| Misinformation as a Starting Point for Critical Thinking |
| University of South Australia, Australia |
| The media generally, and the web in particular, offers learners access to increasingly large amounts of data. Some of |
| this will be verifiable, some will be inaccurate or out of date and some will be either acci-dentally or deliberately |
| untrue. Failure by students to recognise the existence of misinformation, deliber-ate or accidental, will lead to the |
| uncritical use of web-sources materials with consequential impact on the value and quality of the work produced. |
| This paper suggests that this potential problem can be turned into an educational benefit by highlighting the |
| problem by stressing the need for students to enhance their critical thinking skills in ambiguous data and |
| information environments. |
| Keywords: Misinformation, web, argument, inquiry, interpretation |
ISSN
1535-07-03
Unless otherwise indicated, this paper has undergone blind external review by three or more reviewers.
Types of Papers: A Best Paper, Regular Paper, Short Paper, Informal Paper,
Unrefereed Panel Paper
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