Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said her curriculum review would embed critical thinking skills in lessons.

Children will be taught how to spot extremist content and fake news online under planned changes to the school curriculum.

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said she was launching a review of the curriculum in primary and secondary schools to embed critical thinking across multiple subjects and arm children against “putrid conspiracy theories”.

Pupils might analyse newspaper articles in English lessons in a way that would help weed out fabricated clickbait from true reporting. In computer lessons, they could be taught how to spot fake news sites and maths lessons could include analysing statistics in context.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOPEnglish
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    3 months ago

    What my Dad always called “the elastic curriculum” - some politician gets a bug up their ass and demand schools teach it (eg BoJo and Latin). At least this weaves through different subjects so could be made to work. Still, it must be a bit difficult to teach critical thinking in religious schools.

    • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      A bit difficult to teach critical thinking in religious schools

      Religion requires you to not have critical thinking skills at all

    • Zip2@feddit.ukEnglish
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      3 months ago

      And that’s why religious schools need to stop, and the Church of England needs to be disestablished.

    • then_three_more@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      must be a bit difficult to teach critical thinking in religious schools.

      Which is why all religious schools should be banned.