I participated in teaching tolerance, teaching digital literacy workshop. I learned how students have a difficult time deciding what is fake and what is real news. The workshop talked about children's illusion of comprehension, the content the see and how it can lead to hate crimes, information inequality, increased vulnerability to conspiracy theories and vicious cycles of civic disengagement and ways as teachers we can combat it. It learned about media literacy, tools to recognize and decode bias, making thinking transparent and creating citizen editors. As a student I can use tools from this workshop to decide if it is fake or real news and the importance of media literacy. As a teacher I can teach students about media literacy. I also learned about how young students consume news and can help them understand there is fake and real news.
