CAIRO The Grady County Board of Education appointed Human Resources Director Dr. Jamie Horne as Interim Superintendent at its board meeting on Thursday. The board stated Horne was the ideal candidate to continue the vision the district had already established, as well as the vision of the late Dr. Eric McFee, who passed away [.].
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Teaching Fact-Checking to College Students Blasted By Misinformation
For Generation Z, born between 1997 and 2012, social media especially YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat has become their source of information about the world, eclipsing traditional news outlets. In a survey of more than 1, 000 young people ages 13 to 18, 8 in 10 said they encounter conspiracy theories in their social media feeds each week, yet only 39% reported receiving instruction in evaluating the claims they saw there. The Civic Online Reasoning program was built to address this gap. The post Teaching Fact-Checking to College Students Blasted By Misinformation appeared first on FlaglerLive.