https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/media-literacy-can-help-students-discern-fake-news

Summary:

This video on PBS discusses how educators, media literacy advocates, and legislators solve the problem of discerning fake news. Pbs news had correspondent Kavitha Cardoza travel to a public school in Seattle Washington to see how the third-grade history Teacher Niamh O’Connell was teaching her kids about fake news. One way is that she had her students analyze the words used to make it seem like it was better than it actually was. The reason Niamh wants to teach her students so young is so they hopefully won’t give in to future or present propaganda.

Educators, media literacy advocates, and legislators are working together to pass laws to have schools teach about media literacy.Kavita Cardoza talks with Media literacy advocate Claire Beach about why it should be taught in all schools across the U.S. Clair Beach “When they’re using their phones, they may know how to make something work, but they don’ have the ethical piece ‘ the emotional intelligence piece. It’s wilderness out there for some kids.” What their end goal is that they want every state to teach media literacy.

Reflection: This is a very good thing to be talked about and pushed in today’s society. I want as many people as possible to be aware of this. With people learning about media literacy it can help against potentially extremist leaders that we may face in the future. The more people know, the harder it is for citizens to be controlled, and the faster that change would happen.

Quotables:

“Niamh O’Connell: They soak up everything around the I think it’s important for them to be able to control the interpretations that they hear and see every day, instead of the interpretations may be controlling them.”