Recently, the war between Russia and Ukraine has attracted the attention of the whole world in a flash, and news about the war situation between the two countries has emerged endlessly.
However, the public who want to understand the situation of the war is always full of doubts when browsing the news, in addition to the ever-changing forms of war, one of the main reasons is that some people use the mechanism to falsify the news for some purpose.
For example, a scene of a Russian father and daughter parting is described as a Ukrainian father saying goodbye to his daughter before going to war; A shot depicted as Russia bombing a Ukrainian building, which later turned out to be footage of wars that took place in other countries in previous years; First one side said how many soldiers had been captured, and then the other side denied it.
All kinds of news are dazzling, and there are contradictions and even confrontations between the disseminated news, which makes it difficult to distinguish between true and false for a time. This is still true for adults, let alone children?
With the popularity of the Internet, people can quickly obtain various information through various platforms on the Internet, but a lot of information may be artificially fabricated, and if we cannot distinguish the true from the false in time, we are very likely to be misled. Now more and more children have access to the Internet, which should be paid more attention to.
In 2016, a Stanford education group surveyed 8,000 junior high school students, and research showed that most students were unable to discern the truth of the news they saw, and 82% of students even thought that marketing news as advertising was also true.
A veteran journalist was once invited by an NGO to teach children to discern the truth. He told the child: "On the internet, not everything is fake, but not everything is true. Everything you read must be verified. ”
If you are not aware of fake news, it will bring a lot of harm to the development of people and society. As children, because their logical reasoning ability and cognitive ability are still developing, they have less experience and are more likely to be affected by fake news.
Once a child is exposed to fake news, there are many adverse consequences. Children may be lured by misinformation that affects their psychological and cognitive development; Children may be exploited by fake news with ulterior motives and inadvertently become the disseminators of misinformation; There are also children who, because they mistakenly believe in fake news, do something that hurts themselves and others.
Therefore, guiding children to learn to correctly treat the information received and learn to distinguish the authenticity of news and information on the Internet is something that parents need to do as soon as possible.
For the daily news received, parents can guide their children from the following aspects:
1. Teach children to discern the source and authority of the message. Under normal circumstances, the news of some large news media organizations and large portals will be verified before being released, and real news maps will be added, and the source is more reliable. The data and theories they cite will also be confirmed by professional authorities and more credible.
2. Teach children to distinguish between facts and opinions. News reports need to be true, objective and comprehensive, and will clearly describe the six elements of news, present them to the public, and do not mix personal feelings. In order to highlight and support their own ideas, news publishers may make selective reports, using some vague or favorable words and phrases, which will affect the news recipients.
3. Encourage children to think and explore, and guide them to learn to question. There is an old Chinese saying: "It is better to believe in books than to have no books." "The same is true for news, if possible, children can be encouraged to dare to question and guide them to verify the news they see."
4. Everyday you can look for common features of fake news with your child. For example, some news headlines are particularly eye-catching, some news content is obviously contrary to scientific common sense, some news is released particularly quickly but the content is very vague, some news is published by different institutions but full of contradictions between each other, and so on.
5. For younger children, limited by the development of their thinking, it is difficult to teach them to distinguish the authenticity of the news. Parents can ask them to read more books that are appropriate for their age, discuss with them more, and ask more questions. Take the questions they ask seriously and improve their critical thinking ability.
In this process, not only children's ability to distinguish information will be improved, but their independent thinking ability and spirit of inquiry will also be exercised and improved.
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