This has been the year of the ‘techlash’. Over the past few months, there’s been a significant shift in the public debate about social media. Fake news, addiction, hate speech, data harvesting, cyberbullying… the litany of digital ills gets longer by the day.
Amid all these controversies, there have been growing calls for young people to be taught about social media. One of the latest examples of this was the European Commission report on fake news and ‘online disinformation’, which recommended that member states should support programmes of media and information literacy in schools. A couple of months earlier, the UK Children’s Commissioner was calling for young people to be taught about the emotional impact of social media, especially as they transition to secondary school.
- : https://davidbuckingham.net/2018/05/03/teaching-social-media-5-reflections/
- : David Buckingham
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