It turned an assignment about our family’s heritage into a lesson about what’s real on the internet. But how much of the online content our kids encounter as they seek to understand the world will be fake? We laughed as we weeded out the unrealistically vivid and comically fake results, like the sloths in Glamour style poses. My daughters are Generation Alpha, and the digital world they were born into is far more instant, omnipresent and complex. But it’s sad nonetheless that part of growing up today means learning to navigate an online world so rife with manufactured and misleading content.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 17, 2024 10:43 UTC