Media literacy is finally getting some long-overdue attention. Whether it's the rising awareness of political disinformation, the threat of AI, Russian hackers, or cellphones in the classroom, discussions about media literacy are on the uptick.
Evidence shows that children are confident in their ability to identify false news but are ill-equipped to evaluate source validity. Across the U.S., media literacy is slowly working its way onto the agendas of elected officials.
The adoption and implementation in the classroom, however, lags far behind. Social media platforms emerged a few years later, starting with Six Degrees in 1996, MySpace in 2003, and Facebook in 2004...
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