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LAS14

(13,783 posts) Wed Feb 22, 2017, 10:35 AM Feb 2017

What do teachers trying to teach internet savvy do now?

How can a teacher help students investigate the reliability of internet information without being accused of fostering a political position? I'm too old to have ever seen such a curriculum, but I understand such things are now taught in school.

When I reflect about how I determine truth from falsehood one of the things I do is check multiple reliable sources, which for me are the NYT, NPR, Snopes, etc. What if your family's "reliable source" is Breitbart????

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What do teachers trying to teach internet savvy do now? (Original Post) LAS14 Feb 2017 OP

If the parents can not understand a reliable source hard to expect the kids do dembotoz Feb 2017 #1

Place it under the rubric of internet "safety." nolabear Feb 2017 #2

dembotoz

(16,799 posts)

1. If the parents can not understand a reliable source hard to expect the kids do

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Wed Feb 22, 2017, 10:57 AM

Feb 2017

nolabear

(41,959 posts)

2. Place it under the rubric of internet "safety."

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Wed Feb 22, 2017, 10:59 AM

Feb 2017

You can sneak all kinds of facts in there without them being the "point" of the whole thing.

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