- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmit.online
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmit.online
Children will be taught how to spot extremist content and misinformation online under planned changes to the school curriculum, the education secretary said.
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”.
One example may include pupils analysing newspaper articles in English lessons in a way that would help differentiate fabricated stories from true reporting.
In computer lessons, they could be taught how to spot fake news websites by their design, and maths lessons may include analysing statistics in context.
“Extremist content” == “not wanting Palestinians to be dehumanized, dispossessed and murdered by Israel”
Hopefully this is more aimed at far right anti immigration bullshit
Hopefully it tries to be as neutral as possible, and just gives kids the general tools to spot when something’s fake/exaggerated.
Introducing this sort of thing without trying to be strictly impartial sounds like a slippery slope.
this class sounds like a malicious teacher could easily introduce bias and radicalize children… :/
A malicious teacher would probably already be doing that.