Digital Smarts - Newsela and Fake News Initiative
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Education startup Newsela, in partnership with the American Press Institute, is teaching kids to be more discerning when consuming online news material. Servicing over one million American teachers, the organization started out by teaching literacy skills to kids through online articles, and has now taken on a more “civic-minded role” after the election. Questions such as “Where do the facts come from?” and “Is there a bias?” have been added to their usual article comprehension list. According to the company, both children and adults today need someone to show them the way to question news sources.