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Growing up, we had classes where our English and History teachers reviewed current events and historic periodicals (w/ original newspaper!) This just seems to
by rootsudo 5y ago
Growing up, we had classes where our English and History teachers reviewed current events and historic periodicals (w/ original newspaper!)
This just seems to be instilling propaganda from a young age.
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" That can be as simple as opening a new tab and leaving the post to find more about the source of information. It appears to be effective. "
And then the article goes more depressing from there, it's not per se news literacy, but general information technology literacy.
Anyone can spin up a LAMP stack and run a web server, or a blog and post content, buy a $9 domain and put a portrait of someone who does not exist - and link it to some scientific or even hijack an accredited offical.
What then? You're going to teach students how a WHOIS works?
(Granted I knew about WHOIS since middle school, but 99% of students though and todays generation I'm sure don't even care how the Internet works outside..)