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."
I am totally behind this effort, and see it as a complete necessity moving forward.
I think on the first day of class, lesson one should be do not listen to a damn thing this guy says.
It certainly won't happen as long as the repubes are controlling Congress, but a reinstating of the Fairness Doctrine would certainly HELP!
ReplyDeleteAt least that way, the liars could perhaps be successfully prosecuted.
Considering the cost of higher education, I am glad to see this happen. I know that I was not "taught" critical thinking until I went to college way back in the 70s. My very conservative parents sure gave their opinions on things and I always thought I was in the wrong by disagreeing with them on things. It just didn't make sense to me some of the things they were saying.
ReplyDeleteNo two people are going to think alike on every last subject, and it is not "liberal" to question in place of accepting what is put forth as gospel truth.
No, but it IS "conservative" to question EVERYTHING not coming from a conservative, and question NOTHING that does. -Their version of "fair and balanced"...
Deletegospel truth? NO SUCH THING...FACT!
DeleteThank you both. That was my position.
Deletethe sooner the better, our generation had to wait until college to get that sort of background.
ReplyDeletemaybe high schools should also focus more strongly on civics and add in money management skills as well
Lawmakers should start by banning Fox, dead Breitbart, Info-whores,James O'Keefe and all alternative fact sites. Then put a rust bobwire muzzle on Drumpf's ugly face and break his fingers so he can't type.
ReplyDelete"...Then put a rust bobwire muzzle on Drumpf's ugly face and break his fingers so he can't type."
DeleteWouldn't work. He'd use his nose. It's long and pointed enough and he loves sticking it in everybody's business!
Donald Trump is a real Superman. Leap tall buildings in a single bound, fuck that. Jumping to conclusions is all he can muster.
ReplyDelete"Jumping" is too generous, he just rolls his head back and Fox & Friends spoons his "conclusions" sloppily into his gaping Jabba the Hut maw...
DeleteIt will probably be used in partisan attacks by conservatives because facts tend to have a liberal bias.
ReplyDeleteI'm betting they'll attack it when it becomes clear 90% of fake news caters to conservative political views...
DeleteFacts are facts there is no bias.
DeleteThat only matters when you respect facts...
DeleteOnly liberal when they're caught in the lie.
Delete8:13, facts do have a bias if you are thinking like a repube!
DeleteFunnily enough, this is just a small part of what librarians covered when classes went to the library. Too bad we got rid of most of them.
ReplyDeleteWell doesn't it depend on who is teaching the class? Who is in charge of determining what is fake?
ReplyDeleteNo. Information Science is taught by certified teacher librarians.
DeleteUnfortunately, when the schools lost funding they were the first to go because no one understood what they did or the importance of it.
Too late now.
Sorry, mlaiuppa, but it is NEVER too late for an education! Even a small amount of knowledge can be critical.
DeleteI'm saying it's too late to rebuild those once stellar library programs. There's no money and no qualified staff. This is something you can pile on the classroom teachers on top of what they're already expected to do. They're unqualified and untrained and it's not their job. If it's not on the test, they're not going to teach it.
Delete'lesson one should be do not listen to a damn thing this guy says.' REALLY?
ReplyDeleteWe should listen but DO not beLIEve what he spews. ~IT~is all a RUSE. HE shot someone on 5th...<projecting?
Rocket Man! ALL ONE!
ReplyDeleteBLAST THIS ON THE NORTH KOREA BORDER !!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=forqmom3YuY
OT?"has privately told friends and associates that the president and other members of the Trump family, including White House adviser and first daughter Ivanka Trump, miss him and want him back in the West Wing."
ReplyDelete“It would amaze and shock me if the president still talks to [Scaramucci] or is considering re-hiring him after what happened,” one senior White House official said. “And that is coming from someone who works in a place where nothing surprises me anymore.”
he does "still speak to both President Trump and Ivanka" he doesn't have plans to return to the administration.
"His future plans are exciting and offer an extremely lucrative payday," "They will launch Anthony in a different career. Stay tuned for a January announcement."
"A hedge-fund millionaire and former member of the Trump presidential transition team, Mooch was booted from the administration in late July after just a week and a half. During his stint, however, he managed to facilitate the departure of then Press Secretary Sean Spicer, publicly contradicted Trump’s own legal team, vowed a brutal staff purge, leaked news that he was firing a White House spokesman before he even told said spokesman (only to turn around and bizarrely denounce his own leak, pretending he didn’t do it), outed the president on live TV as a source, potentially worsened relations between the FBI and the Trump White House, accused then Chief of Staff Reince Priebus of a felony, and accidentally went on-record with The New Yorker for an interview in which he called Priebus a “fucking paranoid schizophrenic” and accused Bannon of “trying to suck [his] own cock.”
“Is he on drugs?” Trump earnestly asked those around him, according to two White House officials and another Trump confidant."launched “The Scaramucci Post.” Billed as a news and commentary outlet, The Post hasn’t gotten off the ground except in establishing a Twitter account that often tweets links to articles at actual news sites. The one time it did make news was for all the wrong reasons: running a Twitter poll asking, "How many Jews were killed during the Holocaust?"
Recently, the Mooch has been making the rounds as an unofficial surrogate for Trump on cable TV."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/anthony-scaramucci-is-telling-pals-that-donald-trump-wants-him-back?via=twitter_page
Everything is fake these days.
ReplyDeleteKids with high school gpa at 4.0, but are in remedial college courses.
Too bad being president has no remedial self help trump.
Too bad all govt staff have to make remedial charts and stuff for fat oaf in office.
That's a 3.497 for Bristol.
DeleteI makes me LAUGH!
Whatever...
Even kimk is fake.
DeleteHow fun.
ReplyDeleteThey used to have specially trained teachers that did nothing but that.
They were called LIBRARIANS.
But when the budget cuts started “trimming the fat” after Reagan’s propaganda “A Nation at Risk” the first ones to go were the librarians because they were considered superfluous or “fat” and could be replaced with technicians that just checked books in and out and then shelved them.
Well, you get what you pay for.
Bill Gates thinks you can replace them with computers and software programs.
My masters degree isn’t called Library and INFORMATION SCIENCE for nothing. My last 10 years of teaching all I did was teach information science and how to spot a hoax website, vet sources and identify “fake news.” But I still got excessed.
Our district has over two dozen schools and there are less than a handful of librarians left at middle and high school level and most are split between two schools. The elementary level has never had certificated teacher librarians.
There’s no way to rebuild what was once a robust support program. (When I went to high school, my high school of 3,600 had TWO teacher librarians plus several technicians.)
Hell, school districts are having a hard time recruiting TEACHERS let alone teacher librarians for programs that have been cut so far back even the bones are picked clean.
Good luck with that information literacy for public school students. You have been raising generations of information illiterate adults. We can see that now. But it will take generations to reverse that, and it simply isn’t going to happen. That Tax Scam simply won’t support it.
Karl Rove must be so pleased. All those Reagan Nation at Risk purveyors got what they wanted in the end. They didn’t need to privatize the schools, they destroyed them by choking off the funding.
The Tax scam will take care of Social Security.
"...The Tax scam will take care of Social Security."
DeleteJust because Congress writes a bill and passes it does NOT mean it is Constitutional.
AND, I do believe the 60+ million people ON SS would have something to say about it!
Social Security isn't in the Constitution
DeleteRyan is already planning on bills to scale back all of the "entitlement" programs. If he can get it done while there are still Repulsive, er, Republican majorities in both houses, it's a done deal.
You can be anything you want! That never happened, even though it did.
ReplyDeleteOld dotard is putting out that his approval is 40#. Who did they poll? There is no way this ass has more than 10# of registered voters.
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