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Teaching Students to Navigate Algorithms and Deepfakes
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- Talk Cocktail
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- May 21, 2026
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- 2328
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Summary
Valerie Ziegler, a high school teacher in San Francisco, and Joel Breakstone, executive director of Stanford’s Digital Inquiry Group, join me on this California Sun podcast to talk about digital literacy in the classroom. Many self-described “screenagers,” they say, can no longer tell real from fake. Together, Ziegler and Breakstone are at the forefront of a movement to prepare young people for a world of influencers, algorithmic manipulation, and artificial intelligence, an effort recently profiled in the New York Times . Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe