Students at a younger age are becoming exposed to media as technology becomes more prominent in their day-to-day life. Lucie Renard in the article "Fact Checking and Fake News Lesson Plans – The Ultimate Teacher Guide" (2019) discusses how we can implement lessons to teach our students about being careful with the information they see online.
Fake information can influence businesses, for example posting what a CEO of a business said that is not true, may change the perspective of consumers into changing their mind about the business. Fake news can influence politics, by stating false information may leave the public to vote for the opposite party during elections.
Fake media does not only change the perspective of businesses, celebrities, or politics, but it can also ruin personal lives. For example, photoshopping images to make it appear as if it was real can ruin a person's career or reputation. Fake news can spread like rumours or gossip and as the public we see things, we end up sharing the news for our friends and family to be aware of as well. However, it is important to think critically about whether we should believe what we see online.
Renard mentions 2 lessons that teachers can use to help students understand about what we can and can not trust. Renard shared fake news checklists that can be given to students while they conduct practice research. Students can check whether the site is reliable or not.
Fake news worksheets are another strategy to allow students to read 2 articles and using a Venn Diagram they can compare and contrast different articles and identify what news is real and what is fake. This lesson is targeted towards Grade 9 to 12 but can be modified for Grades 4-8 by providing smaller articles or having students look at the titles or pictures of the news.
Article Site: https://www.bookwidgets.com/blog/2019/01/fact-checking-and-fake-news-lesson-plans-the-ultimate-teacher-guide
AmritaB@NU
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