When Amanda Gardner, an educator with two decades of experience, helped to start a new charter elementary and middle school outside of Seattle last year, she did not anticipate teaching students who denied that the Holocaust happened, argued that COVID is a hoax and told their teacher that the 2020 presidential election was rigged. Yet some children insisted that these conspiracy fantasies were true.
Yet few American kids are receiving this instruction. Last summer Illinois became the first U.S. state to require all high school students to take a media literacy class. Thirteen other states have laws that touch on media literacy, but requirements can be as general as putting a list of resources on an education department Web site.
Some programs, such as Schneider’s Stony Brook program and the nonprofit, Washington, D.C.–based News Literacy Project, teach students to discern the quality of the information in part by learning how responsible journalism works. They study how journalists pursue news, how to distinguish between different kinds of information and how to judge evidence behind reported stories.
For instance, in a 2017 study researchers looked at how well students who had taken Stony Brook’s undergraduate course could answer certain questions a year later compared with students who had not. Students who had taken the class were more likely to correctly answer questions about the news media, such as that PBS does not rely primarily on advertising for financial support.
Still, even if news literacy education teaches specific skills well, some researchers question its broader, longer-term impact.
SciAm you sound guilty for pushing covid scam on children?
Children are stupid that’s why they need the guidance of parents into and beyond their late teens.
Generally if the same talking points are simultaneously on ABC NBC CBS CNN MSNBC it is misinformation. Especially if they are quoting Signore Science.
Not just critical thinking is necessary for kids to understand the world better, institutions, corporations and the government itself should be able to be trusted, transparent and be truly responsible for all the power they have and be efficient.
Too much of the misinformation comes from the family dinner table. ❤️🇨🇦
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