According to the American Psychological Association’s Chief Scientific Officer Mitch Prinstein our brains are wired to believe what we see. But today, there is digital fakery everywhere we look…..so are we (including our kids) really seeing it for what it is? In a recent NY Times interview, Prinstein , who has young children, we have to train our brain to ‘consciously overrule’ what we are seeing because it could be a fake video or fake content.
Play the free online game, Get Bad News, for ages 14 and above. Learn all about fake news and the skills it takes to “build psychological resistance against online misinformation” says Cambridge Labs. Spot the Troll is another learning game from Clemson University. The goal is for our kids to be able build discernment skills to determine what is real from fake in the daily videos they watch, claims by others on platforms etc.