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).
I grew up on the Internet, I was introduced to computers by the time I was crawling in the 90s, and the Internet grew around me at a slow pace as I’ve gotten older. I’ve seen Yahoo come and go, I’ve seen Google take over, I’ve seen Wikipedia grow. Online forums where niche communities lived were fun places to hangout. I was homeschooled until when I was 13 and went to 9th grade public highschool. Other students around me were cognizant of Google and Wikipedia, but most didn’t grasp online forums quite yet and were hanging out in AIM/Skype friend groups. Doing research and finding niche sites wasn’t in their forte until later near graduation. As far as my highschool teachers went, they certainly taught how to perform research by looking up information in reputable sites including news media, wikis, and the like, I’m just not certain every student cared to learn, some maybe most took the advice and learned but there’s a few that just wanted to pass and didn’t care by the means or how, they did very little research on their own.