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'Fake News Detection' In School Textbooks Implemented In Kerala
The Business Guardian
|August 14, 2024
In a move to empower school children, the Kerala General Education Department has added 'Fact-Checking' modules as part of new ICT textbooks for Classes 5 and 7, designed to help students recognize fake news and perform fact-checking on online platforms.
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The move by the Kerala government was implement even ahead of UK which reportedly is is planning to revise their primary curriculum by including this topic.
Earlier in 2022, Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE), the technology arm of Kerala General Education Department, had imparted Fake News prevention and awareness creation training for 19.72 lakh students of Grades 5 to 10, as part of the Digital Media Literacy programme.
It was the first time in India that such a massive training was given to 9.48 Lakh Upper Primary students and 10.24 High school students with the help of 5920 trainers. The 2.5 hours of training which was titled 'Satyameve Jayathe' focused on four sections which included the 'Use of the Internet in dayto-day life', 'Social Media requires us', 'Rights and Wrongs in Social Media' and how to prevent the spread of fake news.
This story is from the August 14, 2024 edition of The Business Guardian.
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