It‘s More Important Than Ever To Teach About Bias, Point of View, and Fact Versus Fiction

From the earliest days of my teaching career, there used to be a unit I taught every year on the NEWSPAPER. Students would cut up papers I had delivered and do work on the Six Honest Serving Men that journalists had to answer the questions to - Who, What, When, Where, How, and Why.   They would practice writing articles.  They  would do work on bias and point of view and talk about fact versus fiction.  When the Internet came along, it was obvious that they had to learn about how to choose the sites they found their information on.  Now, of course, all of this has become even more important. We all know now how easy It is to be led astray by conspiracy theories and forget all about bias and so forth.  This video helps to focus on these thoughts and more.