The Understanding News & Current Events deck is for students and young people building the foundations of informed citizenship, for teachers and librarians who teach critical thinking and media literacy, and for families who discuss current events at home.
It helps you engage thoughtfully with a complex world of information. That is more than spotting a false headline: it means evaluating where information comes from, telling reporting from opinion, understanding more than one perspective, noticing your own reactions to difficult news, talking constructively with people who see things differently, and connecting what you read to your own values and to action.
Each card holds one question from six dimensions: Media Literacy & Critical Thinking; Information Consumption & Digital Wellbeing; Understanding Complexity & Multiple Perspectives; Constructive Dialogue Across Differences; Values, Ethics & Civic Engagement; and Emotional Intelligence with Current Events. A card might ask how you distinguish between news reporting and opinion pieces, how you move beyond a headline-level understanding of an important issue, or what helps you listen to perspectives that challenge your beliefs. Like every FlourishTalk deck it is made for you, with your name on every card, and arrives by email as a print-ready PDF to print on cardstock and an eBook for a phone, tablet or computer.
I suggest you begin with Media Literacy & Critical Thinking, with a story you have read this week in front of you. In a classroom or at the dinner table, one card and one news story are enough for a good conversation.
Dr Alten du PlessisFounder, LearnSmart4Life