The list of offensive statements included: “America is the land of opportunity” and “I believe the most qualified person should get the job.”
Can someone please explain to me how the statement "I believe the most qualified person should get the job" is offensive?
at Harvard not to teach rape law—or, in one case, even use the word violate (as in “that violates the law”) lest it cause students distress.
I think this is completely unnecessary if you are someone who is going in to law and you can not handle words like "rape" or "violate" then you should not be going in to law. This really irritates me that this was even an issue due to when looking at our own entertainment culture there are several shows and movies that contain rape, Game of Thrones is one of them. When is our society going to realize you can not sugar coat everything in life! Okay sorry rant over...
These tips are just a start at determining what type of news an article is. Zimdars outlined these and others in a guide for her students.
With the media being at our fingertips these research tips should really be taught in classrooms. While reading these it makes sense, and most of them I would not even think of checking certain obvious things.
On Sunday, police said a man with a rifle who claimed to be "self-investigating" a baseless online conspiracy theory entered a Washington, D.C., pizzeria and fired the weapon inside the restaurant.
I see these kind of articles getting passed around and being shared on social media all of the time! Why I personally think it is so important to have critical thinking skills, especially when it comes to articles in the media, is with working with the next generation they think everything they see on any media site is true. I have been told my the 5th and 6th graders is majority of their news comes from sites like Facebook.