Free curriculum helping students evaluate online sources, spot misinformation By: Amanda Brandeis and last updated 2021-01-25 15:15:23-05 SAN DIEGO, Calif. â History, science, and English are subjects students are expected to learn. But some educators feel thereâs another skill kids need now more than ever: digital literacy. While young people are digital natives, research from the Stanford History Education Group shows they don't evaluate online sources with the same fluency as they operate devices. âThe one word we used to summarize it was bleak," said Sam Wineburg, the Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and History at Stanford. His team created an instrument to measure digital literacy in 2015, testing thousands of students from middle school to college. At the time, Wineburg says there was little hard data on the issue.