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Google Announces New Program That Teaches Kids To Spot Fake News

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Google recently announced a new media literacy program that teaches kids to spot misinformation and fake news. The company did this in a bid to expand its two-year-old digital safety curriculum for children.

 

The tech giants are launching six new media literacy activities for the curriculum. It will help teach children how to avoid phishing attacks, verify information, evaluate sources, identify false information online, spot fake URLs and more.

 

The company developed these media literacy classes in partnership with the executive director of The Net Safety Collaborative, Anne Collier, and co-founder of the National Association for Media Literacy Education, Dr Faith Rogow.

 

 

Media literacy courses provide children with discussions and activities aimed at helping them develop critical thinking skills. This is especially useful when it concerns online resources. The idea is that it will help kids to understand the content they find online.

 

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Children will be able to verify information and protect themselves from hackers. They will also learn how phishing works and how to avoid it by discussing reactions to suspicious online messages. The bot section teaches them how AI works and illustrates the differences between bots and human beings.

 

Google app protecting Kids from fake news

This equips the kids with learning what credible sources are and how to figure them out. They pick a question related to something they may have seen online and then try to find answers online using credible sources.

 

“If you can’t find a variety of credible sources that agree with the source you are checking, you shouldn’t believe that source,” the curriculum explains. Children also learn to spot fake information using clues like deceptive URLs.

 

This new Google curriculum is available online for both families and teachers. Furthermore, it is offered in Spanish, English and eight other languages.

 

The whole reason for the literacy course is to encourage children to make a habit of rechecking all news and information. Even ones that they do not suspect are suspicious. In essence, this way, Google is helping the kids to spot and protect themselves from fake news.

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