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California Schools Will Require Students to Learn to ID Fake News, Misinformation | KQED (www.kqed.org)

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Pushing back against the surge of misinformation online, California will now require all K-12 students to learn media literacy skills — such as recognizing fake news and thinking critically about what they encounter on the internet.

Gov. Gavin Newsom last month signed Assembly Bill 873, which requires the state to add media literacy to curriculum frameworks for English language arts, science, math and history-social studies, rolling out gradually beginning next year. Instead of a stand-alone class, the topic will be woven into existing classes and lessons throughout the school year.

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[–] LethalSmack@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The problem was it forced you to agree with that opinion. There was no thinking involved, only blind belief

Critical thinking would allow you to understand opposing opinions while respectfully disagreeing

[–] Stumblinbear@pawb.social -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

There was no thinking involved

I actually wholeheartedly disagree. It's easy to spout off your own beliefs, it's harder to justify one you don't already agree with. Critical thinking here would require you to understand where the article is coming from rather than writing it off entirely because you start from a position of not agreeing.

Understanding an opinion while not agreeing with it is incredibly important. If you don't understand a topic well enough to advocate for the devil, then you don't understand it enough to have a conversation at all.

This is literally what critical thinking is. It's not "justify a position you already agree with."

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's an example of critical reading, not critical thinking. Reading isn't thinking, they are different, that's why they mostly have different letters in them

[–] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 0 points 1 year ago

I doubt you'll change my mind on this, but feel free to keep trying

You aren't just reading it. You're writing an entire-ass paper on the subject which would require actually understanding where the article is coming from in order to further extrapolate its opinion, otherwise you'd just be rewriting the article in its entirety which doesn't seem to be the goal of the assignment.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it

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