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They’ve grown up online. So why are our kids not better at detecting misinformation?
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this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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It also doesn't help that we literally have decades worth of media indoctrinating kids (now parents) into thinking "teachers don't teach you anything useful". How many nicklelodean kid sitcoms involved mean teachers who "don't even understand what they are teaching?"
I don't know what current kid shows are teaching. But I know my sister's husband very much likes to "make jokes" about his kids' teachers to them. I do what I can when I visit but I can already see them shifting from "Wow, school is cool... why is everyone staring at me?" to "Ugh. I hate having to do homework. I am never going to use any of this in real life".
This isn’t helped by the fact that in many school districts it isn’t possible to hold a child back. We literally have students entering high school that haven’t done anything since 3rd grade but have been advanced to the next grade anyways. Then we get surprised Pikachu face when they can’t do the things they need to graduate.
That actually ignores the whole “make up credit” classes where answers to every question are literally a google search away.
I literally had a student in one of my math classes who pasted a “couldn’t find results for…” as an answer to a homework question because they had mistyped the question.
Curious: What is the root cause of students/less intelligent people like this? Poor upbringing? Genetics? Effort? Somewhere down the line there’s a cause.
There’s no motivation to do the work. Students that work hard get a diploma. Students that don’t do anything…still get a diploma.
We have students who can barely read and can’t do basic math, but they still get a diploma. Why do work for the same result?
I don't know, how many?