Tassii via Getty Images Kids are increasingly sceptical of what they see in the news and on social media. Kids and teens with access to social media and who watch the news are inevitably seeing broadcasts, images, videos and posts that are a lot to unpack. Kids need to learn how to identify whether a story was primarily written to inform us of facts, as objectively and accurately as possible, or to persuade us of something. This article from HuffPost U.S. is a good starting point for parents looking to help their kids develop media literacy skills. It’s also good, Yates said, to help kids maintain a sense of their own agency in the world, rather than feel defeated by events like these.

Source: Huffington Post January 10, 2021 18:56 UTC