The students sit at desks in groups of four, watching videos about the recent bush fires in Australia. One shows an apocalyptic landscape in flames, the other a tourist paradise, with assurances that much of the continent is safe.Instead of dismissing both as fake news, the eighth graders know what questions
The students sit at desks in groups of four, watching videos about the recent bush fires in Australia. One shows an apocalyptic landscape in flames, the other a tourist paradise, with assurances that much of the continent is safe.
“Media literacy is the literacy of the 21st century,” said a recent report by the nonprofit group Media Literacy Now. Story continuesThe issue is being attacked by dozens of organizations offering information and curriculums on the subject. According to Media Literacy Now, 14 states require some sort of media literacy education in elementary and secondary schools.
“Increasingly, students are arriving at college with bad digital citizenship habits,” he said. “They are outsourcing their judgment to their peers and to technology.” As part of the coalition, Stanford developed the curriculum, Civic Online Reasoning for middle and high school students. The goal is broader than just the media, but focused “on how we become informed about the issues of public policy that affect our lives,” Wineburg said.
Wineburg said he learned these skills from professional fact-checkers and that “focusing on a very small set of high-leverage skills can make a dent in students’ abilities to make wise judgments.” The idea of a journalism school now should be “not only teach the journalists of the future, but to prepare the audience of the future,” Schneider said.
“This generation is very disillusioned by news — everything is fake news,” said Maria Carnesi, district chairman of social studies at the Plainview-Old Bethpage school district, which is Stony Brook’s first demonstration district on Long Island. “News literacy is really empowering for young people."
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