Digital Smarts - Current Affairs Podcasts for Curious Children

The election may be over, but the past four years has shown not just how fast the news moves, but how inaccurately. Finding vetted sources for our kids is more important now than ever. Four current affairs podcasts for kids were recently reviewed and recommended for kids in an article in The New York Times. The list includes daily, weekly and bi-weekly shows. Interested in building your kids critical thinking skills? Try The Big Fib, a show for 7 to12 year olds. The show has a fact-or fiction theme, such as  “Toilets,” in which a 9-year-old named Theo has to figure out whether a civil engineer named Gloria really created a solar-powered toilet, or if the other grown-up in the hot seat, Joe, is really an expert plumber. It’s a goofy premise that nevertheless shows children how to be good skeptics and equips them with the critical-thinking tools they need to interpret the world around them.