Teaching Students to Navigate Social Media

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Homeschooling with Technology

Meryl van der Merwe

300 episodes

6 days ago

The Homeschooling with Technology Podcast is a weekly show, hosted by Meryl van der Merwe, where she shares ideas on how to use technology to be more productive as a homeschool parent and on how to use technology to make lessons more engaging. In addition, she covers techie skills your children need to learn and how to easily incorporate them into your homeschooling. Meryl homeschooled her 4 children after working as a computer programmer for many years. She uses technology whenever she can when teaching both live co-op classes and online classes for homeschoolers. In this podcast, she shares all the best tech resources she finds with you.

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Teaching Students to Navigate Social Media

Homeschooling with Technology

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Teaching Students to Navigate Social Media

329: Teaching Students to Navigate Social Media
Teaching students to navigate social media is more important than ever as teens face a constant stream of information, misinformation, and online pressures. In this episode, Meryl Van der Merwe is joined by returning guest Stephanie Simons, founder of CritiKid, a platform dedicated to teaching kids critical thinking.
Stephanie shares:

Common social media challenges for teens: pseudoscience, scams, clickbait, unhealthy comparisons, and more

Why trying to shield your kids from social media isn’t enough—and what to do instead

A fascinating study about how studying misinformation can actually strengthen critical thinking

Her “Three Tab Method” to fact-check what you see online

How to turn your own social media feed into a teaching tool

We also introduce Stephanie’s new Social Media Simulator, a safe, interactive platform to help students identify manipulative content and logical fallacies
Resources mentioned:

Stephanie’s article: Turning Misinformation into Education

CritiKid website

Fact-checking search engine by Media Smarts

The Critical Thinking for the Digital Age course: FundaFunda Academy Self-Paced Courses

Where to find Stephanie (@critikid)
Instagram
Facebook
Youtube
TikTok

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