Students go beyond Google

Many adults may not know the difference between primary and secondary sources. I had to look it up to be sure.

But a bunch of Bigfork students definitely do. Surrounded by the products of artificial intelligence, bots and deepfakery, this generation of kids will have to develop finely tuned filters.  

“Sometimes the online video would look like a primary source,” said Ava Sewell, who with classmates Kent Fahnlander and Ella Tidwell created an exhibit on Pearl Harbor for Bigfork High School’s recent history fair, “but then you would watch more and look closer and it … wasn’t.” She tapered off with a wry smile while her colleagues nodded.