May 10, 2023
If it’s on the internet, it must be true, right? While most adults know that’s not the case, do children? Turns out, most kids don’t, despite having grown up with technology.[1] Over the last decade there has been a drastic increase in the amount of time young people spend with media, so it’s important for them to learn to control the media that surrounds them, rather than letting it control them.
Learn4Life created a Civic Literacy and Media Influence fellowship program. Working with seasoned media professionals, students develop critical thinking skills about the media and learn how the media shapes our culture and society. The 12-week course focuses on the fundamentals of journalism, editorial narrative, public policy, government and storytelling through experiential, project-based and lecture modules.
[1] https://www.greatschools.org/gk/articles/raise-a-source-savvy-kid-in-the-age-of-fake-news-and-internet-hoaxes/
