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A Handbook for Journalism Education and Training

Riko Dwianto, 26/09/2025

Developments in the last few years have placed journalism under fire. A range of factors are transforming the communications landscape, raising questions about the quality, impact and credibility of journalism. At the same time, orchestrated campaigns are spreading untruths – disinformation, mal-information and misinformation – that are often unwittingly shared on social media:

Disinformation: Information that is false and deliberately created to harm a person, social group, organization or country
Misinformation: Information that is false but not created with the intention of causing harm
Mal-information: Information that is based on reality, used to cause harm to a person, social group, organization or country.

Written by experts in the fight against disinformation, this handbook explores the very nature of journalism with modules on why trust matters; thinking critically about how digital technology and social platforms are conduits of the information disorder; fighting back against disinformation and misinformation through media and information literacy; fact-checking 101; social media verification and combating online abuse.

This curriculum model is an essential addition to teaching syllabi for all journalism educators, as well as practicing journalists and editors who are interested in information, how we share it and how we use it. It

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Climate education is still a ‘peripheral topic’ in Southeast Asia’s syllabus amid calls to make it mandatory

Riko Dwianto, 17/09/2025

CLIMATE MATERIALS FOR CHILDREN

The lack of government-mandated climate education has opened the door to educational entrepreneurs to fill a gap.

The founders of Earth Warriors, a global early childhood education curriculum, noticed a lack of climate education content available to any child under the age of 11.

Keya Lamba and Shweta Bahri have designed materials suitable for those aged between 3 and 7, which they hope will be adopted by schools around the world. Their courses have been peer reviewed and supported by climate scientists.

“Our whole mission and belief is that if you build these sustainable habits at a young age, then being a conscious citizen that cares about the planet comes as naturally to these kids as brushing their teeth,” Lamba said.

“There’s a lot of evidence that shows this is true. It can also nudge the adults around them as well,” she said.

“We try to show that kids are the ones demanding and making the changes. Climate change education has to be everywhere at every age group. It’s so critical and it’s surprising that it’s not taken very seriously or urgently.”

They aim to challenge assumptions that learning about climate change is too complex or

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ENA Sounds Alarm About Violence Against ED Nurses

Riko Dwianto, 17/05/2025

Classified in: Health

On Capitol Hill, ENA, ACEP and ANA call for laws to mitigate violence in health care

WASHINGTON, March 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Leaders from the Emergency Nurses Association

(PRNewsfoto/Emergency Nurses Association)

The American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Nurses Association joined forces Friday on Capitol Hill to emphasize the need for passage of legislation designed to mitigate the frequency and severity of workplace violence in health care.

During a briefing for congressional staffers, representatives from the three organizations used data and storytelling to build understanding of the impact this ongoing crisis has on health care workers and patients, a situation that is particularly affected in emergency departments which serve as the health care safety net and are open all day, every day.

Among the data highlighted:

The rate of serious injuries related to workplace violence is six-times higher for hospital workers compared to all other private sector employees in the United States.
Studies show emergency nurses and other members of the emergency care team experience a violent event once every two months on average.
Of the nearly 500 members who responded to an ENA survey this year, 56 percent said they had been either verbally assaulted,

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Climate change education is lacking in many US schools. Kids want more

Riko Dwianto, 23/04/2025

Today’s children and young adults care more about climate change than they do most issues as temperatures have reached record highs and the number of weather-related disasters continues to rise.

Yet research suggests the learning materials students are consuming in school have in some cases muted their coverage of climate change. Students told USA TODAY treatment of the issue has remained limited in schools even as their demands for such education have grown.

“Everything I learned about climate change was self-taught,” said Amara Ifeji, 21, now a senior at Northeastern University in Boston and an environmental justice advocate. Her low-income high school in Maine didn’t require climate change instruction for students in her particular science, technology, engineering and math program, let alone instruction that addressed the uneven impacts on people of color.

Amara Ifeji, 21, had to teach herself about climate change growing up. Here she stands at Two Lights State Park in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. She fell in love with the environment after visiting Acadia National Park for the first time at age 10.

While a number of states have changed their standards and curricula to address climate change, she worries about all the students at schools that lack the resources or the political will to make it a formal and interdisciplinary part of the learning experience. Polls have found a majority of teachers still don’t talk about the topic in class, usually saying it’s outside their wheelhouse.

This, observers say, amounts

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