California has taken a groundbreaking step towards equipping its students with essential skills for navigating the digital age. This new law brings a vital focus on media literacy into our education system, and highlights the importance of giving students the tools to navigate an increasingly misinformed digital landscape. It’s important that students are given the tools to form their own opinions on facts rather than inflammatory tactics.
Highlights:
Addresses a Crucial Need: In today's digital world, the ability to discern reliable information from misinformation is essential. “Fake news” are proliferous, and it’s important that we give students the tools to fact check and to understand bias, as well as the importance of conflicting interests.
Empowers Critical Thinking: By integrating media literacy into K-12, this law aims to foster critical thinking skills essential for evaluating and responsibly engaging with media content.
Promotes Digital Citizenship: In a world where our digital selves have increasing influence in the real world, it is more important than ever to teach students about responsible digital citizenship and give them the tools to navigate online spaces with integrity and discernment.
Read more:
- Apodaca: Fact or fiction? A new state law hopes to help schoolchildren determine what’s real
- California to Teach Media Literacy in Every Grade
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