In times when false news on social media is more and more upper hand with the help of artificial intelligence, media literacy is required more than ever. However, teenagers have considerable weaknesses in this area, as a special PISA evaluation shows.
As OECD education director Andreas Schleicher explained on Tuesday in the Ö1 “morning journal”, the 15-year-olds are doing badly in this country. So only 44 percent succeed in checking the quality of information online. In the OECD average there were more than 50. According to the report, Austria lies at the end of the statistics, behind Bulgaria and for Morocco.
Expert sees schools as a duty
To improve the situation, according to Schleicher, people should mainly start in schools. Leading competence is still understood far too often to process information, according to the OECD education director. While you have just learned the content of textbooks in the past, you have to question information today. “So that’s something that is not yet in the Austria,” Schleicher complains.
Austria clearly under the OECD average
The share of students, who are easy to evaluate, is considerably under the OECD funds in Austria. In countries such as Singapore, Ireland and Denmark, young people can handle information online. In the daily school life there are often treating false information from real ones.
Source: Krone
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