"Narváez sees hope in the next generation of Ecuadorians. He also sees a challenge. Even the best education can't compete with the flood of unverified information that shapes young people's digital lives. He worried his students didn't care whether what they saw on social media was true. But he found something unexpected: his students were already skeptical."
"As a high school history teacher and fact-checker, Gabriel Narváez wanted to bridge his two professional worlds. His goal was to strengthen public discourse by teaching his students to question what they read and share online."
ICFJ's Disarming Disinformation is a three-year, Scripps Howard Foundation–supported initiative to slow disinformation through investigative journalism, capacity building, and media literacy education. MediaWise from the Poynter Institute partnered to develop and deliver media literacy programming and a training-of-trainers program accepted global participants across two cohorts. The program trained 27 trainers who reached more than 3,200 people. Gabriel Narváez, a high school history teacher and fact-checker, designed workshops and integrated lessons into classes, reaching 134 seniors to teach them to question, verify, and apply media literacy skills amid a flood of unverified digital information.
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