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See also Danah Boyd's talk on how media literacy classes push some students toward extremism. The gist is that schools have been promoting programs where studen
by Alex3917 8y ago
See also Danah Boyd's talk on how media literacy classes push some students toward extremism. The gist is that schools have been promoting programs where students are taught not to take what they see in the media at face value, and to go Google/YouTube it for themselves. Which, because of the sorts of things discussed in this article, results in a certain percentage of students becoming radicalized and basically (or literally) becoming nazis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I7FVyQCjNg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I7FVyQCjNg
- CzechTech 8y agoWe should all blindly trust what the NYT and CNN tell us. Otherwise we risk becoming Nazis. That's what you just wrote. Good job.
- benbenolson 8y ago> We should all blindly trust what news articles tell us, otherwise we risk becoming Nazis. I search facts behind news articles all the time, but never find anything even closely related to the Third Reich. Am I doing it wrong?
- chriswarbo 8y agoI suppose there's a need for "Internet literacy" (or "Google literacy"). One rule I instinctively follow is, if I find some claim surprising, e.g. "there was more X under president Y, than president Z", I will search for something like "X USA graph", look for a source I recognise (and hence know the credibility and biases of), and see if the data supports either or neither of those alternatives. I will specifically not search for "X president Y" or "X president Z" because that will be priming the algorithm to confirm my biases.