yes I think good away forward better so future students won't cancel math classes anymore
(https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-leftists-try-to-canc...)
Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach News Literacy
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#92I'm surprised to see such negative reactions to this effort. Information and media literacy is sorely lacking in the present day USA and we could be doing much more to educate future generations on topics like this to help them make sense of an increasingly complex world of information.
I think the idea is great, but I just don't trust the people who will be implementing the idea. They could simply use it to create more bias.
You mean you don't trust teachers? Then take your kids out of schools
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#93Given the primary example used on the kids, the 2016 election, this seems more about instilling bias under the name "news literacy". Are they going to do a section studying the "coverage" of hunter biden's laptop? Remember, for weeks it was cast as Russian propaganda. What about the origins of covid.. will they discuss how at first the lab leak theory was discarded as "misinformation"? I could not trust a public scho…
That lab leak theory is the most amazing example of widespread bias on all sides I've ever seen. We went from it being banned on Facebook to it having mainstream acceptance in like a week despite ZERO change in the underlying evidence. The evidence was always just "well there's a lab there". The only thing that changed was Trump isn't president anymore. It's the perfect rorschach issue for underlying bias, free of an…
I've always been of the opinion that a lab leak is certainly possible, but still very unlikely. It's been wild seeing this rollercoaster that is entirely based on media coverage without one shred of evidence either way.
Very disenchanted with the media over the last 5 years, and it did not used to be this bad.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean one way to teach this class would be to simply cover current events in an over the top, biased way and then discuss the tricks used and concerns. (Maybe students get credit for credibly challenging anything mentioned in the class)
I taught high school for a hot second. I think the approach you suggest would be terrifically engaging for students. Teach them the tricks and make a game of trying to fool one another by setting up two competing teams of "news media," print and talking heads. Essentially, you're teaching them informal fallacies.
I agree this would be a great tool. But I hesitate to think how they will overrun reddit and other places with their newfound tricks to dupe the olds.
Re: Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach News Literacy
#95Given the primary example used on the kids, the 2016 election, this seems more about instilling bias under the name "news literacy". Are they going to do a section studying the "coverage" of hunter biden's laptop? Remember, for weeks it was cast as Russian propaganda. What about the origins of covid.. will they discuss how at first the lab leak theory was discarded as "misinformation"? I could not trust a public scho…
Don’t forget that COVID isn’t a threat and to head on down to all the nice restaurants in Chinatown!
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#96My daughter’s private school invests quite a bit of effort in teaching critical thinking and source criticism. It’s a little odd that their generation already seems thoroughly cynical as it is, then again they were raised with the internet. They don’t believe anything. They think the world is corrupt. Example: Young women it seems were more “red pilled” by the Epstein fiasco than most adults (perhaps because they identify more with the victims).
This gives me hope. The boomers’ blind allegiance to their news sources and political parties has allowed evil to flourish unopposed.
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#97Hasn’t this always been taught?
Like—what was “critical thinking”?
Just so disappointed. Education really is terrible in general. Very few seem to be able to apply their skills in different areas. Sort of like how I was only able to solve a particular kind of math problem but when it was rephrased…kaput.
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#98I've taken a news literacy class at Stony Brook about 10 years ago, when it was then a relatively new program. I think it's an incredibly valuable thing.
It was taught in more the general sense of how to apply critical thinking to judge news stories. To the people saying that this just instills propaganda about specific news sources: consider learning a little bit more about the class.
It teaches about how to tell journalism apart from other kinds of information, like entertainment and opinion; the hallmarks of good reporting, like transparency; discerning assertion from verification, and evidence from inference; the idea of seeking out multiple sources and how to reconcile them, etc. It's more a toolbox of how to inform oneself, regardless of any specific source.
It definitely included examples of bad reporting from all sorts of sources, because the message is that its ideas are applicable to any source of information.
Ideas: https://www.centerfornewsliteracy.org/what-is-news-literacy/
Class: https://www.centerfornewsliteracy.org/stony-brooks-center-fo...
Re: Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach News Literacy
#99I feel like they should just teach more statistics. Learn about bias, sampling and significance. > Students reportedly got a lot better at spotting questionable sources. Like that's definitely a step in the right direction, i.e., don't just blindly trust what you see on Insta or FB, but I worry it'll just teach kids to blindly trust mainstream media like the NYTimes, which are not without their own biases.
Institutions have some level of accountability that Facebook memes don't.
The NYT is not an arbiter of truth. However I am much more likely to pay attention to a piece of journalism from them moreso than my neighbor who can't read saying vaccines are just microchips. At the very least there is a credibility factor that they have.
The US has always had biased media - people forget the famous newspapers of the federalists and the republicans as early as the birth of our country - however at times it was able to align with certain truths between factions. It seems this is what was really lost.
Journalism has taken a huge hit in this country and the effects are widespread. I'm not against hearing an argument for something. I am against hearing an argument based on an unsubstantiated rumor and "we don't know if it's true but WHAT IF IT IS true" reporting that exists today.
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#100To all the commenters critical of this idea, what do you suggest as an alternative? I don't think letting kids belive that Facebook/Reddit/TikTok memes are valid news sources is a great course of action either.