Media education programs mark 10 years in Moldovan schools

Media education programs in Moldovan schools have reached a ten-year milestone, focusing on teaching students how to verify sources, distinguish facts from opinions, and understand the relationship between emotions and information.

Teachers use practical experiments to demonstrate the risks of online manipulation. For example, one instructor conducted an experiment where students, reacting to a sense of frustration over an unscheduled lesson, inadvertently signed documents that would have allowed the use of their personal names to create fake social media accounts. This exercise aims to teach students the importance of pausing and detaching from intense emotions before reacting to information in a digital age.