AIMS
- Learn what RESPECT means
- Build RESPECT for COPYRIGHT
- Educate on MEDIA LITERACY
- Learn how to distinguish FAKE NEWS
- Develop critical thinking skills by analyzing and evaluating information available online
- Develop ICT skills by playing games and create a guide and fake news detector game
SUGGESTED COURSE OF THE LESSON
1. Use a Jamboard or any other tool and ask your students to provide a definition of FAKE NEWS - brainstorming. Use the Twinboard to share your thoughts.
2. Introduce students to the following definitions and compare them to the students' answers:
- false stories that appear to be news, spread on the internet or using other media, usually created to influence political views or as a joke (Cambridge English Dictionary)
- false, often sensational, information disseminated under the guise of news reporting (Collins English Dictionary)
3. Students follow the activities in the Genially Breakout and take notes while playing. Which information would you highlight and use to create your own Fake News Detector Guide?
- Read the introduction
- Complete four challenges
- Download your passport as a reward and add the stamp you will get at the end of the journey.
- There are extra games and certificates at the end of the breakout
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITY
4. Food for thought. Are you hosting a live session? Students will work in international pairs to discuss their findings and decide how they will create their Fake News Guide.
5. Fake News Detector Guide CHALLENGE. We will use a poll once we get the results on the Twinboard to choose the eTw-TRAIN Detector Guide.
RUBRIC-assessment Fake News Guide