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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.”

After posting on open lab about my favorite part if the article we read it had me thinking.The post made me think about how bad misinformation can be.In my research I hypothisize that I will find multiple articles about the school system in America and about politics and fake newsL; I am also curious about what other topics might come up out of my research.If I find information that disproves my question I will read to try to get more view points on the subject and it may even change how I think.

Levin, K., 2020. The Remedy For The Spread Of Fake News? History Teachers. [online] Smithsonian Magazine. Available at: <https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/remedy-spread-fake-news-history-teachers-180961310/> [Accessed 6 December 2016].

Summary:

This article talks about how the internet can be potentially a good and bad source for people to learn about their history. This article quoted another article saying that they had their child had an assignment on the civil war. On the internet, he found a website that contained false information about how there were black Confederate soldiers. What some historians discovered is that the website was made by the sons of confederate veterans to try to help them distance their history from slavery. On the other hand, the internet can also be a great place for finding out about history. At the end of one paragraph, Levin talks about how with the internet he can introduce his students to lesser-known historical figures that people normally wouldn’t find in textbooks. Another reason that the internet can be a good place to learn about history is that people can do their own research for as long as you want. If you find yourself researching online, then double-check to see if the source they used is credible or not.

Reflection:

I agree with author Levin’s opinion on the subject. For people that don’t know how to do research on the internet properly, it can be very dangerous to them because false information can lead to unnecessary problems in the future. To go back on the example I used in the summary if enough people believed that there were black Confederate soldiers then there could be a lot more people that the confederacy did nothing wrong. This can lead to even more racist problems in America.

Quotablels: “‘It is not intended to pose an alternative truth,” writes author Neal Gabler, “as if there could be such a thing, but to destroy truth altogether, to set us adrift in a world of belief without facts, a world where there is no defense against lies.'”