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From: Dave Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: September 9, 2006 8:54:34 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [email protected], Alice Kehoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [IP] Scholastic Rethinks Path to 9/11 Study Guide
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rather than washing its hands entirely due to the fallout with
former president Clinton, the company will still provide a guide to
the show, but will try to incorporate the controversy into the
guide by focusing on media literacy, critical thinking, and
historical background.
“After a thorough review of the original guide that we offered
online to about 25,000 high school teachers, we determined that the
materials did not meet our high standards for dealing with
controversial issues,” said Scholastic President Dick Robinson on
the company's Web site.
“At the same time, we believe that developing critical thinking and
media literacy skills is crucial for students in today’s society in
order to participate fully in our democracy and that a program such
as ‘The Path to 9/11’ provides a very ‘teachable moment’ for
developing these skills at the high school level.
This could be quite a useful exercise.
The effect of propaganda -- material that contains a small amount of
truth and a great deal of tailored untruth -- is strongly reversed by
having a credible commentator offer insight about the material while
it is being watched.
In other words, properly educating the viewer about a distorted
program, while they are watching it, can result in a strong reaction
against the program's creators. In effect it can innoculate viewers
against the program's creators...
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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