How Media Decoding Can Teach Students to Be Seekers of Truth
Teach your students to be “truth seekers” with this curriculum-driven, inquiry-based media analysis activity.
In 2020, the World Health Organization declared that we are in the midst of a global infodemic: an overabundance of information—some accurate and some not—that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it. This media-fueled crisis is shaking the foundations of our democracy by undermining our collective understanding of truth through politicized and monetized misinformation and disinformation.
But there is a solution: By teaching K–12 students to habitually ask critical questions about the media messages they see, read, and hear—and to reflect on their own biases and interpretations of that information—teachers can stem the infodemic tide. For more than 25 years, we have been codifying this process that we call Constructivist Media Decoding (CMD).
Read more by clicking here >>>> THE CMD RECIPE
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