Online misinformation often targets children and teenagers, says professor and author CaulfieldTim. That's why it's essential to empower children with critical thinking skills to fight its spread. Here, Caulfield details exactly how to do it:
were caused by space lasers? The U.S. government is run by lizard people? The COVID vaccines contain microchips? Nope, nope and nope. That all may seem obvious, but a surprising percentage of people believe such nonsense: an Abacus survey from June of 2022, for example, found that a quarter of Canadians think that it is possibly or probably true that COVID vaccines include secret chips designed to monitor and control their behaviour. Put another way, 3.
Fighting the spread of misinformation isn’t a battle that can be won quickly. It’s a problem that seems likely to intensify, thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence and the recent rollback of misinformation countermeasures on social media platforms like YouTube. Instead of just trying to curb misinformation, we need to empower children with critical thinking skills, and we need to do it now.
As for inspiration, Canada can look to a country like Finland. There, educators start teaching critical thinking skills in primary school, using games, images and even fairy tales to introduce concepts like lies, hoaxes and fact-checking. This educational policy, which ramped up around 2015, arose as a response to the rising disinformation campaigns flowing into Finland via Moscow.
cancelled summer vacation. For my part, I helped create an online science literacy course at the University of Alberta. It’s intended, as psychology researcher and host Claire Scavuzzo notes, to build the skill of thinking scientifically—to be skeptical and ask questions. The class is free, and any Canadian can enrol, but it’s also designed to be integrated directly into school curricula.
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