Posted on 12/30/2017 11:21:23 AM PST by Olog-hai
Alarmed by the proliferation of false content online, state lawmakers around the country are pushing schools to put more emphasis on teaching students how to tell fact from fiction.
Lawmakers in several states have introduced or passed bills calling on public school systems to do more to teach media literacy skills that they say are critical to democracy. The effort has been bipartisan but has received little attention despite successful legislation in Washington state, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Mexico.
Several more states are expected to consider such bills in the coming year, including Arizona, New York and Hawaii.
“I don’t think it’s a partisan issue to appreciate the importance of good information and the teaching of tools for navigating the information environment,” said Hans Zeiger, a Republican state senator in Washington who co-sponsored a bill that passed in his state earlier this year. “There is such a thing as an objective source versus other kinds of sources, and that’s an appropriate thing for schools to be teaching.”
Advocates say the K-12 curriculum has not kept pace with rapid changes in technology. Studies show many children spend hours every day online but struggle to comprehend the content that comes at them. …
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Science has been politicized too.
Teach the children how the dire prophecies of 10 foot ocean rise and no more snowflakes (within 10 - 20 years) never came to pass (we are beyond the expiration date of those predictions).
Deuteronomy 22:5 explicitly forbids transvestitism.
We’re close to a decade past some of those predictions. The infamous one that the UN scrubbed off its website was “50 million climate refugees by 2010”, from seven years ago.
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Oh, so you had to resort to scripture!
What a weak argument. (/srk)
Well, remember al-Gore sold out CurrenTV to Al-Jazeera in English, back in 2013? and how long that lasted? (About three years.)
He’s sold Channel One as well but they still push the global warming scare to school children.
This will go nowhere.
NOTHING could be more dangerous to the Deep State than teaching kids to think.
media literacy would include Cronkit was a fraud, CNN has multiple fake stories in the years, NBC pickup flares used to fake news, 60 minutes fakery, msnbc lying, megan tablidism, homsexuals pushing a narrative on air news stories, omission of stories on and on....
The teacher (who may have been a conservative) taught us how to read a newspaper and how to spot propaganda. I remember she taught us five types of propaganda.
These days there are seven types identified, but they include the five she taught:
When I look these terms up today, I find two more have been added: Plain Folks, and Testimonial. But the original five are still there.
I wish I could remember her name. She was kind to me personally in several significant ways; one I remember is that she took me aside after class to praise me for having correctly used the word esoteric during a class discussion.
Leftie states.
Which means they want to do the OPPOSITE of what they say.
Curriculum on media? Let’s call it common whore.
Media literacy aka Liberal brainwashing
Or, how to believe CNN on everything while you learn everything on FOX is a lie.
We have fake news because we have fake education.
“ethics in J School”
Ethics in J School?
Ethics in J School?
Yep.
The intent is the opposite of what they state. They intend to brainwash children into blind acceptance of the Deep State’s fake reality without considering alternative views.
The Club of Rome was teaching about famines in the 1990’s when I was in JHS in 1975.
Pay for your own kid's education, you bum.
And when you want me or other's to pay for your kid's education, well then, you get junk. Your kid gets junk.
Here is your free voucher education. There is no free lunch.
Daddy? Why am I so stupid?? Because child, your parents want a free lunch. LMAO.
Schools will teach that conservativism is false and liberalism is true.
Your taxes already pay for the education of other people’s daughters and sons.
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