Time to start taking the kids to the public library and showing them how to look up primary and secondary sources, explain how to understand what counts as sources when looking up info, & hammer some Basic Media Literacy into their heads. EVERY. DAMN. SEMESTER. Starting in GRADE SCHOOL.

One leg of this problem is that many teachers and historians are even less prepared for this than the kids are “Just look it up in a real newspaper” and you’ll hear all about Tora Bora, WMDs, and I could go on “No a book by people alive at the time” and the daughters of the confederacy have one

Libraries? Oh, no, we don't have those anymore.

My son's grade school has a "tech literacy" class that taught the kids to look things up on google and chatgpt.

Our high school’s library no longer contains any books. Just workstations. And an immersive technology room that can be controlled by only one user at a time. 🤷🏻‍♀️

when I was in grade school they actually did this! starting around fifth grade, I want to say, but definitely all through middle school

We are already doing this (kind of). It's not working because they don't give a shit, and no one they care about gives a shit either. Facts are vibes based. We can spend a whole unit on critical source evaluation and the only students who bite are the ones who are already AI and disinfo skeptics.

No because the librarians are all being told they need to adapt and innovate and use the new tools etc

Unfortunately this will not happen because the Republicans who are in charge of education in many states find it very useful to be able to lie to the populace without the people knowing any better