Are kids Media illiterate?

Today, we teach our kids a lot of things, from being a good person in life and how to do the best they can, but are we teaching them media literacy as well? Or is it going the way of cursive and becoming something we never teach again?

0:00 Intro

1:10 So much media, but what is true and what is false?

3:00 Question everything you see in media

4:50 A D.A.R.E. program for media literacy

6:20 What about reading and writing? When our young ones are in the world of texting.

7:10 Lester Holt’s starting a media literacy campaign for kids.

9:45 What is news today?

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