Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said her curriculum review would embed critical thinking skills in lessons.

Children will be taught how to spot extremist content and fake news online under planned changes to the school curriculum.

Education Secretary 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”.

Pupils might analyse newspaper articles in English lessons in a way that would help weed out fabricated clickbait from true reporting. In computer lessons, they could be taught how to spot fake news sites and maths lessons could include analysing statistics in context.

  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    This is good, but they could really do with running these for older people too.

    Here's one I heard this week for example:

    "My friend down at the bowls club said on Facebook that they're not even real immigrants, but they're special forces soldiers from the secret UN Army and they're bringing them over here to take over the British and they've all got really good shoes and mobile phones you see, that's how you can tell and they're all of fighting age aren't they?"

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      3 months ago

      I guess the issue would be that they would be voluntary for older people and the type who believe those conspiracies wouldn’t think they need them.