How to teach media literacy to children

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.2 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

School systems around the country are grappling with ways to teach students media literacy. California has just passed a law to do that, and experts say they’re doing it right.

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0:00.0	Hello, it's Meghna here with a small request before today's episode.
0:03.4	We really appreciate that you listen to the Onpoint podcast, but we'd like to know a little bit more
0:08.8	about your listening preferences so that we can serve you better.
0:12.2	If you've got a few minutes to take the on-point survey,
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0:17.0	It's at WBU.org
0:18.0	slash survey, or click the link in the episode show notes.
0:22.0	Now, on with today's show.
0:25.0	Last year we interviewed some students about,
0:27.8	what do you do online that you enjoy?
0:29.8	And most of them responded, TikTok. But a lot of what we talk about when we talk about media literacy isn't specific to to
0:42.4	TikTok or anything like that, it't specific to to to Tik-Tok or anything like that specific to either
0:45.1	seeing news in a traditional web newspaper format or news online something like
0:51.6	that but that's not where students are
0:53.1	getting their information they're getting them from these social media apps and by
0:56.4	the time we catch up with Tik-Tok it's going to be something else or Tik-Tok's going
1:00.9	to radically change what it does.
1:03.2	Christina Sheffel lives in Delaware.
1:09.2	She's a teacher in Delaware's Indian River School District.
1:12.4	She's got plenty of experience in the classroom. in Delaware's Indian River School District.
1:12.8	She's got plenty of experience in the classroom,
1:15.4	but now she's teaching her fellow teachers.
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