‘A big gap’ : where’s the news literacy training for teachers?

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published November 16, 2023

Patchy, under-resourced and often non-existent, the teaching of news media literacy in Australian schools demands swift and significant change, an expert has flagged.

Just one third of all students in the study felt confident they could identify misinformation online.

This year Associate Professor Tanya Notley, from Western Sydney University, led a study that investigated how more than 1000 children ...

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