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Processing new information requires a considerable mental effort, especially when that information seems to conflict with your _______ worldview. It takes the _______ to admit you may be wrong. But with a great amount of conflicting information available, who's to say what's actually true and what's false? If you can't tell, why not just make life easy and go with what supports your current beliefs?
So what _______ do we have? Many suggest that we can _______ the issue by reforming adult behavior, but this is aiming too far from source. An alternative solution is using early education to help individuals recognize these problems and _______ critical thinking to the information they deal with. Currently, there is a push in the US to include Internet information classes into primary and secondary school curriculums. The movement, which has received some support, aims to make fact - checking seem like second _______ to individuals at an early age.
Primary and secondary school are _______ to be supplying students with the skills they need to develop into productive and informed members of our society. As our society develops, the curriculum we are teaching our students needs to develop as well.
The Internet is an amazing tool, but to use it most effectively we have to accept its benefits while also understanding the ways in which it makes us dangerously _______. If students are still learning the practices such as writing in school, shouldn't they be learning how to _______ the Internet responsibly as well?