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Schools to teach children how to spot fake news and ‘putrid’ conspiracies online

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.

fakeman_pretendname ,

This is good, but they could really do with running these for older people too.

Here’s one I heard this week for example:

“My friend down at the bowls club said on Facebook that they’re not even real immigrants, but they’re special forces soldiers from the secret UN Army and they’re bringing them over here to take over the British and they’ve all got really good shoes and mobile phones you see, that’s how you can tell and they’re all of fighting age aren’t they?”

Frogmanfromlake ,
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I guess the issue would be that they would be voluntary for older people and the type who believe those conspiracies wouldn’t think they need them.

HumongousChungus ,

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 ,

There’s two kinds of conspiracies:

  1. Ultimately antisemitic nonsense
  2. Admitted to by the government thirty years after the fact
ProfessorOwl_PhD ,
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right wing vs left wing conspiracies

sunzu ,

The state has zero incentive in teaching kids how to spot propaganda because the state would expose itself lol

Once peasants start using critical thinking they eventually figure out that "muhhh team right" does not serve them much.

dogsnest ,
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  1. Avoid everything formerly called Twitter.
  2. That pretty well does it.
breadsmasher ,
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And facebook, instagram, fox news, gbnews, truthsocial

Emperor OP ,
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What my Dad always called “the elastic curriculum” - some politician gets a bug up their ass and demand schools teach it (eg BoJo and Latin). At least this weaves through different subjects so could be made to work. Still, it must be a bit difficult to teach critical thinking in religious schools.

breadsmasher ,
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A bit difficult to teach critical thinking in religious schools

Religion requires you to not have critical thinking skills at all

Emperor OP ,
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I went to a Catholic school - they did their level best not to avoid anything resembling it (and sex education).

breadsmasher ,
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Just so I understand, the catholic school you attended did teach critical thinking and sex education?

turtlepower ,

Mine did, too. Hell, I had a 4th grade teacher that taught the class how to meditate during the last 5-10 minutes of class. She would turn off the lights, have us put our heads down on our desk and would put on a CD with new age bell/chime/gong meditation music, and she would talk us through guided meditations; simple visualization and relaxation. She also taught us to stand up and speak out when we saw someone doing something bad: “You are doing the wrong thing!”

name_NULL111653 ,

My evangelical school did a “classical education” and made the mistake of actually having some critical thinking after all the indoctrination. I’m a pagan leftist transgender homosexual now.

Zip2 ,

And that’s why religious schools need to stop, and the Church of England needs to be disestablished.

then_three_more ,

must be a bit difficult to teach critical thinking in religious schools.

Which is why all religious schools should be banned.

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