BURRISS: Students in Turkey learn early how to distinguish truth from hype
By: LARRY BURRISS, Post Columnist
Published: May 18, 2014
For the last few days I’ve been in Istanbul talking with school officials, teachers and students about media education. The discussions have led to some interesting differences in what we call “media literacy” in American and Turkey.
In a third grade class I saw students preparing television news programs. Now, to be sure, the students were writing third-grade-level stories about their pets, their hobbies and what their families did last weekend.
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