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Schools to teach children how to spot fake news and ‘putrid’ conspiracies online (www.independent.co.uk)
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Children will be taught how to spot extremist content and fake news online under planned changes to the school curriculum.

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said she was launching a review of the curriculum in primary and secondary schools to embed critical thinking across multiple subjects and arm children against “putrid conspiracy theories”.

Pupils might analyse newspaper articles in English lessons in a way that would help weed out fabricated clickbait from true reporting. In computer lessons, they could be taught how to spot fake news sites and maths lessons could include analysing statistics in context.

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[-] HumongousChungus@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

As always, things will focus more on vibes and credentialism than critical thinking, because conspiracy theories are a mainstay of all the 'serious' papers and conspiracy itself is just how power has functioned for the last few centuries

[-] fox@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

There's two kinds of conspiracies:

  1. Ultimately antisemitic nonsense

  2. Admitted to by the government thirty years after the fact

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

right wing vs left wing conspiracies

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