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Did your basic education (i.e. pre-college/university) cover proper research skills and media literacy? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by ALostInquirer@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm sure this will vary for many people depending on their schools, where/when they were taught, and the like, so I'm interested to see what others' experiences have been with this.

I'm also curious about what resources some have used to learn better research skills & media literacy (and found useful) if their school didn't adequately teach either (or they may have whiffed on it at the time).

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[–] Abraxiel@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

This is all to my fallible recollection.

I remember having to do a research project in middle school. We all got shuffled into the computer lab to start researching a topic to ultimately write an essay or presentation or some such on. The problem for me was that I was kind of blindsided by it.

I all of a sudden had to not only learn how to use a scholarly database to find good information on a topic, but had to pick a topic as a preteen that was interesting and had information available to digest. I don't remember what I ended up doing.

There were other instances of this in my pre-university education though that went better, with more constrained topics or scope.