Learn to Discern in Education supports Ukrainian secondary school students, and the teachers who teach them, to navigate increasingly complex information spaces through a comprehensive, national education reform by:
- Teaching practical critical information consumption skills in schools from each of Ukraine’s 24 oblasts through transformative curricula that build on existing class subjects.
- Providing Ukrainian teachers with educational resources and institutional support to ensure that these skills become an official and permanent part of secondary school curricula.
- Providing Ukrainian preservice and in-service teacher training institutes with the necessary training, mentorship, and resources to prepare educators to prioritize these skills, digital competencies, and modern teaching methods.
- Designing and launching online resources, such as digitized learning resources for teachers, chatbots, and distance-learning content, such as the English- and Ukrainian-language massive open online course on media literacy for adult language learners.
Education is absolutely the key to cultivating smart media consumers and to countering disinformation.... It is more important than ever that our children—our future leaders—develop critical thinking skills in order to sort out truth from fiction.
U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie L. Yovanovitch