The youngest generation could be integral to stopping the spread of misinformation. Teaching media literacy in school is a way to ensure that.
The state's Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law this month that requires all children in K-12 public schools be taught media literacy. Classrooms around the country may teach these concepts informally, but this is the first time a state has implemented this kind of mandate.
Sabrina Burroughs, an early childhood educator and tech mentor at John Lewis Elementary School in Washington, D.C, has taught media literacy to kids as young as three years old all the way up to third grade. Cyndy Scheibe and her three-year-old granddaughter Jaida learning media literacy through reading cereal boxes. “Media literacy is designed to help students of all ages develop habits where they're learning through expression and using those critical thinking skills to become beyond 21st-century learners.
“They were using that media as a resource and a learning tool. They were learning things because there was a lot of speculation about what COVID really was and what was happening. This was early on, so we didn't know.”Oh, gosh, there is a lot of misinformation.
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