There's something odd happening. Reading the primary school history curriculum, I can see lots of emphasis on "how do we find out?", and questioning the accuracy of sources. However, children don't seem to be able to take what they learn in one lesson and apply it elsewhere. It's strange. In "Literacy" they can tell you what an index in. Put them in a library and ask them how they discover if this book includes something on lions, they go totally blank. In "Literacy" they also learn persuasive writing - how to write it, and how to recognise it. They seem to learn it well enough to pass a test on it... but fail to apply it in the wider world.

Plus, they have this scary belief that "if it's on the Internet, it's true." Even more scary, many of their parents and grandparents seem to hold this view even more strongly.