USA Today Features Baldwin UFSD’s News Literacy Curriculum
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Baldwin High School Students and Staff Interviewed
Excerpt from article:
On a fall morning weeks before the 2024 presidential election, Jayla Rennocks and her tablemates were debating whether a social media post with a picture of Donald Trump and the words "I'm voting Aderholt for Congress" was propaganda, publicity or news.
The task for this high school social studies class was recognizing whether this kind of information was trying to persuade them to vote for a candidate, get them to buy a product or inform them about a news event, their teacher, Tayla Plotke, said.
This campaign ad is "trying to get you guys to do something," she told the class.
It's important to Plotke, a seven-year veteran of the district and a history and technology junkie, that students learn to decipher whether the information they consume online is factual or it has ulterior motives. She's among a generation of educators teaching kids to examine the news sources they rely on and giving them tools to determine which information to trust.
In addition to originally appearing in USA Today, this story was featured in 48 news outlets with a reach of over 217 million viewers, including:
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