They’ve grown up online. So why are our kids not better at detecting misinformation?::Recent studies have shown teens are more susceptible than adults. It’s a problem researchers, teachers and parents are only beginning to understand.

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    1 year ago

    Because media litteracy and critical thinking are not subjects taught being taught in schools.

    Inquisitive and skeptical minds do not make for good worker drones.

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      1 year ago

      I had a class in 2nd grade back in like 2002 that taught us about how to spot fake websites, what TLDs meant, and witch ones we could probably trust. One of the examples was a fake site made either as a joke or for these kinds of lectures about tree squids. It was photoshopped octopuses high up in a tree. As with everything in the education system, it’s not that theyre not being taught these skills, the students are not interested in learning them. There are classes that taught me things that people who sat next to me in those classes denied beging taught.

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      They were taught in school in the 00’s but they discontinued them because “kids already know how to use the internet.” This was evidently a mistake.