2022 Volume 46 Issue 2 Pages 325-337
With the advancement of information technology, students are using the Internet to gather information on a daily basis, both inside and outside of school. Accordingly, it is necessary to reexamine the media literacy that is required in today's society and to foster it in school education. In this study, we developed a Web information evaluation sheet as a learning material to cultivate media literacy through activities in which learners read and evaluate Web information critically and analytically in junior high school social studies history classes. As a result of the verification, it was suggested that the learners did not believe the information as it was on the Web, but began to use critical thinking to judge the credibility of the information. The results also suggested that the learners were able to analyze Web information from multiple perspectives by searching for the purpose and position of the information sender, the date of information update and judge the credibility of the information. These results indicated that the students were able to improve their ability to accept the media, but there are still some issues to be solved to improve their ability to express themselves through the media.
