New Jersey becomes first state to mandate K-12 students learn information literacy

[Guno צְבִי]

Amid a worrying rise in internet misinformation and political conspiracy theories, New Jersey students are poised to become some of the most informationally literate in the country.

Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday signed legislation, NJ S.B. 588 (22R)/NJ A.B. 4169 (22R), that will make New Jersey the first state to require that K-12 students learn about how information is produced and spread on the internet, critical thinking skills, the difference between facts and opinions and the ethics of creating and sharing information both online and in print.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/n...A160JII?cvid=18a1f734104d4e148a5e0abf5da2883e

 

[Guno צְבִי]

The bill received overwhelming bipartisan support in the Legislature — somewhat surprisingly given the political polarization of “disinformation” spread online and the role online conspiracy theories have played in recent elections.

The Senate version’s lead sponsor, Republican Sen. Mike Testa (Cumberland), said the new law will help students "weigh the flood of news, opinion, and social media they are exposed to both online and off."

 

[Guno צְבִי]

"This law isn't about teaching kids that any specific idea is true or false. Rather, it's about helping them learn how to research, evaluate, and understand the information they are presented for themselves," Testa said in a statement.

 

[AProudLefty]

Here comes tbe usual suspects.

 

[NiftyNiblick]

And yet I ponder why it isn't immediately evident to everybody that the internet is a sewer.

 

[Yakuda]

Amid a worrying rise in internet misinformation and political conspiracy theories, New Jersey students are poised to become some of the most informationally literate in the country.

Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday signed legislation, NJ S.B. 588 (22R)/NJ A.B. 4169 (22R), that will make New Jersey the first state to require that K-12 students learn about how information is produced and spread on the internet, critical thinking skills, the difference between facts and opinions and the ethics of creating and sharing information both online and in print.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/n...A160JII?cvid=18a1f734104d4e148a5e0abf5da2883e

And who will teach these supposed "skills"?

 

[AProudLefty]

And who will teach these supposed "skills"?

The teachers.

 

[Yakuda]

The teachers.

The left leaning in the pocket of the dem party teachers?????? Yeah that sounds like a really shutty idea.

 

[AProudLefty]

The left leaning in the pocket of the dem party teachers?????? Yeah that sounds like a really shutty idea.

There are conservative Republican teachers as well.

 

[archives]

Amid a worrying rise in internet misinformation and political conspiracy theories, New Jersey students are poised to become some of the most informationally literate in the country.

Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday signed legislation, NJ S.B. 588 (22R)/NJ A.B. 4169 (22R), that will make New Jersey the first state to require that K-12 students learn about how information is produced and spread on the internet, critical thinking skills, the difference between facts and opinions and the ethics of creating and sharing information both online and in print.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/n...A160JII?cvid=18a1f734104d4e148a5e0abf5da2883e

Murdoch ain’t going like that move

 

[anonymoose]

Amid a worrying rise in internet misinformation and political conspiracy theories, New Jersey students are poised to become some of the most informationally literate in the country.

Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday signed legislation, NJ S.B. 588 (22R)/NJ A.B. 4169 (22R), that will make New Jersey the first state to require that K-12 students learn about how information is produced and spread on the internet, critical thinking skills, the difference between facts and opinions and the ethics of creating and sharing information both online and in print.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/n...A160JII?cvid=18a1f734104d4e148a5e0abf5da2883e

Will they be able to reset their Wi-Fi password without calling tech support or paying an IT guy to do it!

 

[T. A. Gardner]

And who will teach these supposed "skills"?

Good question, since it is likely that 98% of teachers in New Jersey lack the very skills they're supposed to teach...

 

[Guno צְבִי]

Good question, since it is likely that 98% of teachers in New Jersey lack the very skills they're supposed to teach...

Pulling more ignorant crap out of your ass?

critical thinking skills, the difference between facts and opinions


"This law isn't about teaching kids that any specific idea is true or false. Rather, it's about helping them learn how to research, evaluate, and understand the information they are presented for themselves," Testa said in a statement.

 

[Mr.Badguy]

Not even reading the thread, but I'm going to predict that the rightys have a major problem with this.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Pulling more ignorant crap out of your ass?
critical thinking skills, the difference between facts and opinions
"This law isn't about teaching kids that any specific idea is true or false. Rather, it's about helping them learn how to research, evaluate, and understand the information they are presented for themselves," Testa said in a statement.

No, stating an obvious fact. Few teachers have degrees outside of one in education based on a non-STEM liberal arts degree. They lack critical thinking skills almost entirely. This is even more true of those that are solidly behind and in a teacher's union where the radical Left dominates entirely.

Whatever the law is about doesn't mean that will be translated effectively into the classroom, and few teachers will be able to effectively teach this skill since they lack it themselves.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Not even reading the thread, but I'm going to predict that the rightys have a major problem with this.

I think it's a great idea, but the execution will be horribly flawed, and it will fail to do what was intended.

 

[Poor Richard Saunders]

Good question, since it is likely that 98% of teachers in New Jersey lack the very skills they're supposed to teach...

That looks like one of the things they will be teaching kids to recognize as "made up on the internet."

 

[archives]

No, stating an obvious fact. Few teachers have degrees outside of one in education based on a non-STEM liberal arts degree. They lack critical thinking skills almost entirely. This is even more true of those that are solidly behind and in a teacher's union where the radical Left dominates entirely.

Whatever the law is about doesn't mean that will be translated effectively into the classroom, and few teachers will be able to effectively teach this skill since they lack it themselves.

They have to have a concentration in one subject area inwhich they intend to teach, and pass a State certification that tests their content area knowledge.

Always love the right’s attack on teachers, they send their kids they couldn’t educate nor discipline to schools and then attack the teachers to do the job they couldn’t

 

[T. A. Gardner]

That looks like one of the things they will be teaching kids to recognize as "made up on the internet."

Apart from a few teachers who do train their students in critical thinking, most teachers do not for one simple reason — there is no time. State education departments mandate that so much material has to be covered that critical thinking cannot be taught, nor can the courses themselves be critically presented
https://thetylt.com/culture/schools...he courses themselves be critically presented.

Indoctrination is a major roadblock to critical thinking. When an individual is surrounded and constantly fed a one-sided view on things like personal beliefs or politics, it stifles critical thinking.

...some people are more adept than others when it comes to being skeptical and analytical. This is understandable, because people who lack intelligence will find it much easier to simply accept certain ideas at face-value than take the time and effort to research them.

What stifles critical thinking in some cases is an unwillingness to do research

critical thinking requires a certain degree of intelligence, cognitive impairment prevents people from grasping the complex rules and processes of critical thinking.
https://classroom.synonym.com/causes-lack-critical-thinking-skills-8627034.html#lack-of-intelligence

It is a rare high-school graduate who can pinpoint 20 different kinds of fallacies in a line of argumentation while reading or listening; who knows how to distinguish between fact and opinion, objective account and specious polemic; who can tell the difference between value judgments, explanatory theories, and metaphysical claims, and knows how these three kinds of statement can or cannot be proven or disproven; who can argue both sides of a question, anticipate objections, and rebut them; and who can undermine arguments in various ways.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-public-schools-dont-t_b_7956518

Most people, and that includes teachers, lack the skills for quality critical thinking. That means teachers that lack those skills will be trying to impart them on students that lack those skills. It's like trying to teach furniture making or landscape painting from a book. Critical thinking is a skill that has to be practiced, and practiced a lot. Trying to teach it by rote or some shortcut out of a book won't work, and that's almost certainly where this will end up since virtually all those teaching it will have little choice but to do it from a textbook lacking the skills in sufficient detail to do it themselves.

 

[Matt Dillon]

Teaching critical thinking is good!