‘Chariots of Fire’ Producer Lord David Puttnam Calls for Digital Media Literacy in Children’s Media Foundation Report on Future of Kids TV

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K.J. Yossman “Chariots of Fire” producer Lord David Puttnam has called for kids to be educated in digital media literacy as part of the Children’s Media Foundation’s (CMF) new report on the future of children’s television.“Lockdowns and school closures associated with the onslaught of COVID-19 have also meant that we are more worried than ever about the amount of time our young people are spending on digital screens: What are they watching?

Who is acting as a gatekeeper?” he wrote in the report.“How well do any of us understand the digital infrastructure in which so much of their time is spent?

And, how can young minds learn to recognize the difference between what’s true, what’s designed to be addictive or, worst of all, something.