what's up lovely people happy Friday I'm
Coy wire welcome to CNN 10 a very
special episode because it's our last
Friday together in 2023 it's been such a
blessing to be a part of your day
learning with you getting to interact
with you it's the main reason CNN 10 for
me is the best 10 minutes in news let's
get this final show of the year started
most often with our show we take you to
places near and far to explore the
latest news stories but today we
traveled to some of you we spent a
morning with ninth graders at South
Brunswick School in New Jersey one of
three states that requires K through 12
schools to offer media literacy courses
starting next year a fourth state will
be added to the list with California
joining New Jersey Texas and Delaware
now media literacy might sound like a
convoluted term but the nonprofit
organization media literacy now explains
it as a way to teach young people how to
consume and evaluate information in our
complex and everchanging media landscape
the aim is to empower students like you
to ask critical questions and avoid
manipulation why is this important well
as our world moves online more people
are getting their news from social media
outlets and while these resources allow
for more diverse voices and stories to
be heard it also opens the door for
misinformation and manipulation at times
from manipulating images and videos to
half truths and false profiles to even
online intimidation there are plenty of
tactics being used every day to confuse
and mislead so how do you equip
audiences to be Savvy news consumers in
this wild west type of environment one
of our CNN 10 producers Natalia oova
spoke to teachers and students of the
media literacy class to show you what
it's all
about I think the big public media
source es there's so many of them and
they all have different viewpoints and
it's hard to see which ones are true or
not I thought it was very interesting to
think about the word choice that people
use and how it can influence your
opinions when we PLL our students we
found that 75% of them get their
information off of social media how do
you become a more Savvy news consumer
I'd like to say that my 14-year-olds are
better at information gathering than
their parents and their grandparents
might be the media lessons allow them to
take that skill and then add to it we're
going to use something called lateral
reading to help you figure out if what
you're reading is credible or not and if
you find something that you think is
trying to make you feel a certain ways
even better you want them to catch wait
a minute why am I feeling like this do I
believe this or I just told somebody
something happened but did I even check
that that actually happened or that
that's even a big deal to me like why am
I saying it's a big deal tell me what
words you see in these headlines that
you think shows bias Revenge oh Revenge
so much of what we hear is you're
attacking the other side or attacking
the other person media literacy has
absolutely nothing to do with which side
of the debate you're on and I often say
to my students I don't care if you are
conservative or if you are liberal it
really doesn't make a difference to me
whatever article you're choosing I want
you be able to look at it from a
critical lens and really make a decision
about whether or not this is a
trustworthy article how else could I say
it besides threatened take it down a
notch for me how do you state it
factually you can have an opinion on
either side but you should be able to
validate that opinion with a fact-based
article information literacy is going to
give them those skills so is the
photograph that's attached to that story
flattering neutral or unflattering what
does that say about this whether or not
we should trust this article you give
them how to decide if something is
credible how to detect bias how to
determine if something is coming from a
credible Source if you pair that with
what they already do well I think then
you have the potential to really see
change I think it's important to have
these classes at school because there
are more people turning 18 and a lot of
them are getting all of their
information from social media and I that
think that'll impact how they vote and
will impact the country as a result we
don't want to limit those research
skills to just their school projects
because think about your own life like
we all have that Aunt that wants to post
things and the things that they're
posting maybe aren't 100% accurate we
want to give our kids language to be
able to speak to that to say hey I was
interested in that topic too and I did
some research and here are two other
sites I found that talk about that topic
differently that's giving the person
that you're talking to the opportunity
to reflect on what you said maybe read a
little bit and not feel like you're
attacking them which I think is really
dangerous in this media environment
these are kids that are going to go out
and do brilliant things we need them to
think about how they accept information
in a smarter way because I think that
will change the way we all
do 10-second trivia counting repeats how
many total items are gifted in the song
12 Days of Christmas 12 364 199 or
993 adding up all those Turtle dos
frenches drummers drumming and golden
rings gets you 364 items almost one for
every day of the
year as we come to the end of 2023 one
of the biggest pieces of economic news
that's been hitting our wallets this
year is inflation even the classic
holiday song 12 Days of Christmas is not
immune to it in what has become an
annual holiday tradition PNC Bank
calculates the prices of all 12 gifts
from the Carol and releases what it
calls the Christmas price index it's
similar to the US Consumer Price Index
which measures the changing prices of
goods and services that the average
American Consumer spends on such as
housing food clothing and transportation
the 40th annual Christmas price index
showed an increase of
2.7% but the good news that's much less
than last year's heavy 10.5% % increase
if you add up all 12 gifts that make up
the latest Christmas price index report
the total cost increased to nearly
$47,000 this year although the Partridge
cost was unchanged there was a 15% jump
for the peir tree a symbol for housing
costs that continue to move higher even
as mortgage rates are at their highest
since 2000 the turtle does are the most
volatile gift price in the index this
year growing by 25% the cost reflects
their Rarity there were several gifts
with with no price increases from last
year including the four calling Birds
five gold rings and seven swans of
swimming if you're looking to buy all
gifts mentioned a total of 364 items as
the gifts are constantly repeated
throughout the iconic song Get Ready To
dish out nearly
$222,000 2.5% more than last year it's
the first time that purchasing all the
gifts crossed the $200,000
threshold
today's story getting a 10 out of 10
comes out of Springfield Missouri this
Santa Claus knows sign language meet the
big guy breaking through barriers to
spread holiday cheer this signing Santa
communicates with deaf and hearing
impaired children using ASL or American
Sign Language making sure that no one
feels left out and that every kid can
get direct access to share their holiday
wish list with the big man all right I
hope all all of you are getting ready
for that holiday spirit whatever
holidays you may enjoy I know I sure am
it's time now for our shout outs of the
year the final ones of 2023 this shout
out goes to the Eagles at Discovery
Middle School in Fargo North Dakota rise
up and this shout out goes to the
glacier bears way up in hannes Alaska
hannes High School rise up I'd like to
take this moment and speak for my entire
team here at cnn1 when I say thank you
from the bottoms of our hearts for all
the love you shown we love learning and
growing with you being unified inspired
and uplifted by the stories we share and
to my team you're the best teammates
anyone could ask for thank you for
caring and working so hard to make CNN
10 the best 10 minutes in news we'll be
right back here with you January 8th and
we wish you lots of joy peace love and
happiness this holiday season let's
finish this 2023 strong tape Boundless
Energy into the new year where I will be
reporting from the future teaser I'm KY
wire this is CNN 10 it's been a blessing
to spend this year with you