Current Club podcast examines how students determine what's true and what isn't

How America’s young people are learning to separate fact from fiction in today’s information avalanche is discussed by three leading experts in the current edition of Update-1, the National Press Club’s podcast.

The podcast features interviews with Belinha de Abreu of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn., chair of the annual conference; Jeff Share, who teaches new teachers at UCLA; and Natasha Casey, a teacher at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Ill. They helped lead the National Association for Media Literacy’s recent annual conference in Washington.

On Update-1, they discuss helping elementary school students learn how the news media work by recording their own podcasts, interviewing family members; how college students can use social media to improve social conditions; and how they all benefit when teachers go beyond the dos and don'ts of web surfing.

Club Broadcast/Podcast team co-vice chair Mike Hempen produces Update-1. The podcast can be heard on the Club website or on iTunes, Stitcher and TuneIn.