Friday, June 15, 2018

Common Sense Media: Preventing Children From Falling for Fake News


Common Sense Media is a website that educates kids and adults how to make smart choices on media and technology use, in a positive and beneficial strategy for their lives. Kids are consuming media almost every second every day, and “the media content they consume and create has a profound impact on their social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development”. Fake news can affect kids by hindering their learning and self-esteem. They would believe in the source of news they are reading about, and later find out that it was not true, and they feel like fools for believing something fake. They weren’t educated to find multiple choices Common sense media is a helpful way to educate children about how to consume their information, and social media is the most uncredible source, but their most preferred source.
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