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Children will be taught how to spot extremist content and misinformation online under planned changes to the school curriculum, the education secretary said.

Bridget Phillipson said she was launching a review of the curriculum in primary and secondary schools to embed critical thinking across multiple subjects and arm children against “putrid conspiracy theories”.

One example may include pupils analysing newspaper articles in English lessons in a way that would help differentiate fabricated stories from true reporting.

In computer lessons, they could be taught how to spot fake news websites by their design, and maths lessons may include analysing statistics in context.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"Extremist content" == "not wanting Palestinians to be dehumanized, dispossessed and murdered by Israel"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

No, but studying "hasbara" would make for good practice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Hopefully this is more aimed at far right anti immigration bullshit

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago

Wells Fargo good! MAGA good. BLM bad, really bad. LGBTQA, bad, really really bad.

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