Monday, July 1, 2019

Google’s new media literacy program teaches kids how to spot disinformation and fake news | #MakerEducation

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Be Internet Awesome, a wonderful new initiative from Google.

A nice explainer from TechCrunch.

Google announced this morning it’s expanding its two-year-old digital safety and citizenship curriculum for children, “Be Internet Awesome,” to now include media literacy — specifically, the ability to identify so-called “fake news” and other false content. The company is launching six new media literacy activities for the curriculum that will help teach kids things like how to avoid a phishing attack, what bots are, how to verify that information is credible, how to evaluate sources, how to identify disinformation online, spot fake URLs, and more.

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