Summarized by Sangyoon Park

The author argues that media literacy education is not being performed correctly. Students are now demanding media criticism. In middle school surveys, 80% of students misunderstand the news. Three out of four students can not distinguish between real news and Facebook. Only one out of three students can respond critically to news sources.

It can be said that digital literacy education was effective when students understood the difference between real and fake news. ISTE judges students’ digital literacy ability based on the following criteria.

References:

Today’s news: Real or fake?. (2017, November 2). ISTE. Retrieved from https://www.iste.org/explore/articleDetail?articleid=2093&category=Digital-and-media-literacy&article=Today%27s%2Bnews%3A%2BReal%2Bor%2Bfake%3F%2B%5BInfographic%5D