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Getting Better News is a media literacy newsletter from the UNESCO and Walter Cronkite Excellence in Journalism award-winning Getting Better Foundation for people who want to understand the world as it really is - without the noise, outrage, or spin.
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🌤️ Happiness Turns Out to Be a Skill, Not Just a Mood (opens the original)
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Tom Bodett, the guy whose voice told a generation of road-trippers “we’ll keep the light on for you” at Motel 6, once said something that had nothing to do with motel vacancies. “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” Turns out researchers have spent the last few years quietly checking his math, and it holds up better than most self-help advice.📊 Getting Better PollShare this post and invi
🏛️ Two Centuries of Democratic Progress Are Colliding with a Decade of Doubt (opens the original)
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Democracy has had a challenging decade by most scorecards. Yet roughly half the world’s countries are still governed democratically, making it humanity’s most widespread system for giving ordinary people a voice in how they are governed. Both things can be true at once, and that contradiction is worth a closer look.📊 Getting Better PollShare this post and invite others to share what informed their answer or shaped their perspective.<a class="button primary" href="https://newsletter.gettingbetter
🤖 AI is Changing What We Need to Teach Our Kids (opens the original)
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AI is evolving from being the shiny new toy to something young people will have to navigate at school, at work, and all over the internet. The good news is that the evidence points to a useful response that is less dramatic than either “AI will save everything” or “AI will ruin everything”: teach people how to use it, question it, and know when not to use it. As Rosemary Smith, Managing Director of the Getting Better Foundation, puts it:“If we don't teach AI in schools, who will teach our kids h
⚖️ How Nice People End Up on Opposite Sides of Arguments (opens the original)
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Ever notice how the person you disagree with most on politics is often someone who volunteers at their kid’s school and tips generously? That’s not a contradiction. We dive into exactly why decent people build entirely different moral rulebooks, and what happens once those rulebooks collide in public.📊 Getting Better PollShare this post and invite others to share what informed their answer or shaped their perspective.<a class="button primary" href="https://newsletter.gettingbetterfoundation.org/
🕵️ School Is Back, but the Most Important Homework Isn’t in a Textbook (opens the original)
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Media literacy is becoming one of the most practical back-to-school skills as AI meddles with political ads, viral “animal tricks,” and even kid-focused media.Here’s a quick tour through campaign spots, a suspicious coyote, and a surprisingly effective media literacy song, plus some grounded ways to help kids stay curious and skeptical without turning every scroll into a panic attack.📊 Getting Better PollShare this post and invite others to share what informed their answer or shaped their perspe
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