As an edtech/design teacher in an IB MYP setting, I anchor my year with strong digital citizen and media literacy lessons. Those are my gifts to the world. When students know how to be good citizens online, when they understand that it's necessary to use critical thinking to sort through the various sources of information and not just 'eat whatever is served', they become better citizens. This year, there's COVID, trauma, shortened instructional time, needed intervention, blah blah blah. "What had happened was..." right? Yes, there are many, many things happening that have influenced this unprecedented year. None of them minimize the need for people to learn to be informed media consumers. That goes for our students and us as well. Make sure you are using non-partisan resources like AllSidesMedia or the Annenberg Public Policy Center's Factcheck.org, to check what you read and hear for validity and source reliability.

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