<p>Vicki and Geraldine talk to the leading expert on media literacy about the need to make the very youngest children aware of how the digital world works.</p><p>Talking points:</p><ul><li>Why start media literacy before children can even read?</li><li>How do we make young children question information without making them suspicious of the world around them?</li><li>Functional illiteracy has remained stubbornly high in the UK for decades - can media literacy do better?</li></ul>

16. Season roundup

Welcome to ‘Tech Shock’ – the new podcast from Parent Zone! Vicki Shotbolt and Geraldine Bedell are your hosts, looking at how digital technology is affecting family life.  They’ll help explain its mysteries to parents, teachers, professionals and policymakers; looking at whether streaming platforms are encouraging young people to make porn, whether online lives are creating a generation of gamblers and whether there are too many men on the internet.  So subscribe now, rate the podcast, and give it a 5-star review – and keep listening every Monday morning for a new episode of ‘Tech Shock – from Parent Zone’.