Schools
teaching how to avoid fake news @ Librarian can take a lead from this!!!!!
Teachers from elementary school
through college are telling students how to distinguish between factual and
fictional news -and why they should care that there's a difference. Teachers
say classroom instruction can play a role in deflating the kind of “Pope
endorses Trump“ headlines that muddied the waters during the 2016 presidential
campaign. “I think only education can solve this problem,“ said Pat Winters
Lauro, a professor at Kean Univer sity in New Jersey who began teaching a
course on news literacy this semester.
“It
hasn't been a difficult topic to teach in terms of material because there's so
much going on out there,“ Lauro said, “but it's difficult in terms of politics
because we have such a divided country and the students are divided, too, on
their beliefs.“
Judging
what to trust was easier when the sources were clearer -magazines, newspapers
or something else, said Kean senior Mike Roche, who is taking Lauro's class.Now
“it all comes through the same medium of your cellphone or your computer, so
it's very easy to blur the lines and not have a clear distinction of what's
real and what's fake,“ he said. A California lawmaker last month introduced a
bill to require the state to add lessons on how to distinguish between real and
fake news to the grade 7-12 curriculum.
High
school government and politics teacher Lesley Battaglia added fake news to the
usual election-season lessons, discussing credible sites and sources and
running stories through fact-checking sites like Snopes.
Source | Times of India | 14 February 2017
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Pralhad
Jadhav
Senior
Manager @ Library
Khaitan & Co
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