Francesca Spezzano, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, will present a paper, “Using Service-Learning in Graduate Curriculum to Address Teenagers’ Vulnerability to Web Misinformation,” at the 26th annual conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education in June.
Graduate students in Spezzano’s Social Media Mining class worked with students at Boise High School to help them learn to be more aware of misinformation online.
“Preliminary results show how service-learning benefited computer science students in their course theory understanding and personal skills development, while teenagers’ news media literacy and misinformation detection were positively impacted,” Spezzano said.