Children will be taught how to spot extremist content and misinformation online under planned changes to the school curriculum, the education secretary said.
Bridget Phillipson said she was launching a review of the curriculum in primary and secondary schools to embed critical thinking across multiple subjects and arm children against “putrid conspiracy theories”.
One example may include pupils analysing newspaper articles in English lessons in a way that would help differentiate fabricated stories from true reporting.
In computer lessons, they could be taught how to spot fake news websites by their design, and maths lessons may include analysing statistics in context.
All information has a bias, so teach that it all has a bias and ways to figure out the biases. Also include that we all have biases in everything we think.
that is probably the best way to go about it. I worry they’ll simplify or strip away too much nuance. But if done well this can be great initiative
It’s biases all the way down!