The Federa Trade Commission has developed a series of quiz-style games designed to teach skills related to trust onlineThe current suite of games includes “Beware of Spyware”, “Phishing Scams” and “Buddy Builder”, a game designed to teach young people to avoid dangerous people on social networking sites. [via]
In similar news, the Educational Testing Service has developed a new information literacy assessment test that includes a set of brief activities in a web browser. This trend toward more interactive interventions will hopefully help develop young people’s competencies in these areas. However, the preliminary results are less than stellar: only 49% of participants correctly identified the most trustworthy website from a set of sites. Fortunately, it looks like there is still work to be done in this area.