The old is new again: States want schools to teach students “media literacy”
State lawmakers around the country are pushing schools to put more emphasis on teaching students how to tell fact from fiction online, a skill they say is critical to democracy. Lawmakers have introduced or passed bills calling on public school systems to develop lessons for a form of instruction called “media literacy.” Alarmed by fake news, states push media literacy in schools We did this when I was a kid in elementary school. We were asked to read a newspaper…