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Did your basic education (i.e. pre-college/university) cover proper research skills and media literacy? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by ALostInquirer@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm sure this will vary for many people depending on their schools, where/when they were taught, and the like, so I'm interested to see what others' experiences have been with this.

I'm also curious about what resources some have used to learn better research skills & media literacy (and found useful) if their school didn't adequately teach either (or they may have whiffed on it at the time).

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[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Random American here. Research skills? Yes, definitely. My high school had access to a couple of the major academic publication databases, so we definitely learned the fundamentals. So many essays.

Media literacy? Nope, not in the slightest. Would’ve been nice though.

I think we’re severely lacking in media literacy, financial literacy, and civics in general. A whole generation with a strong background in those things at an early age would do wonders for society.

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My high school had access to a couple of the major academic publication databases, so we definitely learned the fundamentals.

Was this a public high school? I ask as I know many academic publication databases tend to have notorious costs associated with them, albeit maybe they're more relaxed than I had realized for schools.

[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it was public. This was a while back though, more than two decades ago, so it was the relatively early days of those big online databases. I vaguely remember my school being part of some early trial, though I could be pulling that out of nowhere.