Article Excerpt: Image source: Pitt.edu Are You Teaching Your Children to Think Critically? Few Parents Do By Sean Braswell Source: Ozy.com Over the past year, Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies have ramped up efforts to purge their platforms of accounts spreading fake news , conspiracy theories and other untruths across the internet. But the democratization of the media and the expansion of social media in recent years is placing an increasing burden on us, the consumers of this avalanche of news and information, to do a better job of discerning fact from fiction. Are we up to the challenge? And how well will our children do at confronting an even more challenging media landscape in the years to come? The early returns are not promising, at least when it comes to how well most of us do at engaging in critical thinking on a regular basis — and asking our children to do the same — including in the critical area of seeking out viewpoints o...
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