1. La Educación como Solución Fundamental.
Los participantes coinciden de manera abrumadora en que la educación es la herramienta más poderosa y esencial para combatir la desinformación. Se presenta como la única cura real y una defensa cívica indispensable para anular la efectividad de las narrativas falsas.
- The only real way to combat disinformation is to improved critical thinking through education.
- Disinformation is a bitch. The only cure is education, specifically education about disinformation.
- We must improve our educational system, thus rendering disinformation useless.
- Education is our shield against disinformation. • imagine spotting fake news instantly.
- Disinformation is always the tool of a dictatorship. Public education was to be the antidote.
2. Habilidades Clave: Pensamiento Crítico y Alfabetización Mediática.
El desarrollo del pensamiento crítico, la alfabetización mediática (media literacy) y la capacidad de verificar hechos son identificados como las competencias vitales que la educación debe fomentar para que los ciudadanos puedan discernir la verdad de la falsedad en un entorno informativo saturado.
- It's important that understanding and fighting disinformation as a weapon is incorporated into the education system for young people. Critical thinking is key.
- To be ill-equipped to recognize and counter disinformation is a huge liability; to recognize & combat disinfo is a life skill.
- We need to treat media literacy like the civic survival skill that it is.
- Education is the best defense against disinformation. People must be taught how to fact-check, recognize bias, and think critically.
- I would say the "vaccine" against disinformation includes media literacy, critical thinking skills, and the ability to check facts.
3. Implementación en el Sistema Educativo.
Existe un fuerte llamado a integrar la lucha contra la desinformación directamente en el currículo escolar. Las propuestas incluyen comenzar desde edades tempranas, convertirla en una materia obligatoria y vincularla estrechamente con la educación cívica para formar ciudadanos resilientes.
- We need to teach all students, no matter the grade level, how to develop their critical thinking skills.
- Teaching critical thinking and identifying disinformation should be a required subject in all high schools everywhere.
- We need to teach disinformation awareness in elementary school.
- The ministry of education should introduce a dedicated module on disinformation in civic education and it classes for secondary and high school students to empower young people to identify and resist false information.
- Media literacy should be a subject taught throughout a child’s life in school. From grade school on through high school.
4. El Futuro de la Democracia en Juego.
La conversación subraya que la incapacidad de una sociedad para reconocer y combatir la desinformación no es solo un problema educativo, sino una amenaza directa a la estabilidad de la democracia, la cohesión social y la capacidad de los ciudadanos para tomar decisiones informadas.
- Education is key to protecting democracy.
- Democracy cannot survive large swaths of the population being media illiterate.
- The ability of people to discern reality from unreality and truth from bs erodes until citizens are no longer capable of carrying out what democracy requires of them.
- "the instability of our democracy, exacerbated by unchecked recklessness with information and a woefully inadequate education system, is glaring. Disinformation causes decay indiscriminately,".
- Empowering the next generation: how critical thinking can combat disinformation and strengthen democracy in an age of confusion.