Every year, in the spring, a week highlights the press and the media at school. The opportunity to discuss the basics and draw up an inventory. A major challenge, especially for young people who are addicted to social networks and who sometimes find it hard to take a step back ...

Young people, information and the Internet

Let's be honest, the print media, for 12-17 year olds, is from another era, like the Jurassic ... Even Facebook seems a little old-fashioned to them, that's saying. Their favorite news network? Snapchat Discover . The platform, which allows to make videos / photos with limited lifespan and to send them to his contacts or to play with "filters" of all kinds , is also partner of 17 editors (Le Monde, Vogue, Cosmo, Vice, Paris Match, MTV ...). And boasts 10 million monthly readers of which 80% are under 25 years old . So, of course, flipping through Ouest France or Libération during "the press week at school", comparing the way we talk about the same event in different magazines or making a presentation on the history of the media is certainly essential . It's certain. But it remains thin enough to convince them of the absolute necessity of the freedom of the press and to encourage them to question the source of the news. Essential to teach them to thwart scams , theories of conspiracy or alert them to the dangers of social networks . The best initiative? Give the pupils a "trap": put false information under their noses and dismount it piece by piece with them. In general, it vaccinates them. A good source of inspiration? The section "Decoders" on lemonde.fr

Educate your critical mind at home

To teach them to disassemble the false information, it is also at home that it is played. To support them, we look at the news with them on media that may please them as francetvinfo.fr or "Topo", the comic magazine that explains the news to 15-20 years. Venturing on a field they know well, it's always a good idea to accompany them smoothly.

Thanks to Laurent Bigot, journalist and Associate Professor at the Journalism School of Tours (epjt.fr).