Media Manipulations and Disinformation Introduction
Overview
Class/grade: 11th grade (Elementary school)
authors:
Bryan Villarreal - Nicolas Espitia
Jose Quiroga - Ronal Perdomo
Jonathan Sánchez - Jose Luis Delgado
Time & Length of class: 1 hour 30 - 2 hours
Achievement: - Students will be able to define what a media manipulator is and define some of their types and characteristics.
Pre-activity
TIME: 20 MINUTES
At the beginning, the teacher starts the class with "the telephone game" to motivate the students; and then he asks what they think the reason they played that game for.
Afterwards, the teacher conducts a conversatory about what they think is fake news and if they know of any. Then, he presents a video to clarify doubts.
While-activity
MANIPULATOR TYPES ( 30 MINUTES)
Each student will choose two types of manipulators in the chapter “who is manipulating the media” and they will read it. Afterwards, each student will look for one example of fake news based on either of the two types they read about, and they will post it on a jamboard: https://jamboard.google.com/d/1XODKarQceDmnzW3KxTXu2JdsoU4Cb8YUai1B21CQOgk/edit?usp=sharing
Then some students will be selected to expose their fake news and tell the class the type of manipulator they selected and its characteristics.
CLASS DISCUSSION ( 15 MINUTES)
The teacher will play the video about how fake news work or share it with students so they can watch it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frjITitjisY
Based on the video the whole class will answer some questions for discussion:
-What role does mainstream news media play in influencing the public's opinion and attitudes in a political election?
- what motivates people to create fake news?
- how media manipulation and desinformation works?
-"just happened to be more likely to share fake news" What do you think this means?
Post-activity
TIME: 25 MINUTES
- Teacher asks the students to get into groups of five. Each group will be assigned one picture.
The groups will have five minutes to find at least two features about media manipulation. Each group has to select a speaker to expose their findings. Each speaker will have two minutes to do so.
Teacher provides feedback to the students.
ASSESSMENT SECTION
Assessment: - https://app.schoology.com/course/5167212531/assessments/5218749553
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