In this age of “fake news” and “native ads”, people are not critical enough about the information presented to them. They end up believing what they want to believe.
How do we tackle this? How do we teach our children to recognise this phenomenon? How do we give them the tools to understand and review information for themselves, lest “fake news” becomes a scourge for all time?
In a recent episode of This Week in Tech, contributor Mikah Sargent spoke of how he undertook a ‘media literacy’ course whilst in college.
I could help but thinking how good an idea this was.
Teaching our children how to defend themselves against vested interests controlling our media will be an important democratic tool in the future.
What do you think?