Level: Degree 9 to 12
About the author: Mediamarts
This lesson is part of use, understanding and wiring: digital media framework for Canadian schools.
Overview
This package of the lesson is designed to be modular, allowing teachers to choose the activities that most come to their pins. The crowded sequence is as follows:
Minds On: Spocting DeepAkes (30 minutes): “Minds On” activity, which introduces basic concepts of misinformation related to elections, helps students acquire previous knowledge and shows the abolition of the topic.
One or more of the following, in any order:
- Your information ecosystem (45 minutes): In this activity, students analyze the quality of their information ecosystem and develop ways to improve it and people who rely on them.
- Recognition of election disinformation (30 minutes): This activity represents students to often encourage “tropics” misinformation related to elections and practice of providers in their recognition.
- Digital targeting to advertising (30-45 minutes): In this activity, students will learn how advertising on social networks is focused on the basis of users’ personal data and examines how political parties and interest groups are used.
- Recognition of polarization content (30-45 minutes): This activity teaches students how to recognize misinformation related to elections based on the ways of causing polarizing emotions.
Conclusion: Investigation of election misinformation (60 minutes): Students are introduced to different strategies to verify the elections, included the idea of turnover The best only resource (In this case, Canada options). They learn and practice engage in active citizenship Reaction to misinformation related to elections.
Learning results
Minds On: Spocting DeepAkes
Great ideas/key concepts: Students show understanding:
- Photos can sometimes be inaccurate or misleading
- Politics or election images can influence our political views and also how we vote
- Digital content can be verified by finding and verifying the original source and controling the resource organ to be reliable
Your information ecosystem
Great ideas/key concepts: Students understand this:
- We use many sources of information and messages
- Sources of professional messages collect their own messages and have processes to make sure they are
- Many other sources share and aggregate messages
- We have control over the health of our information ecosystems
Recognition of election disinformation
Great ideas/key concepts: Students understand this:
- Our opinions on politics and choices can be influenced by misinformation
- Misinformation about politics and the elections Usully falls into recognizable tropics
- Misinformation about politics attracts us more when it supports things we already believe
Digital targeting to advertising
Great ideas/key concepts: Students understand this:
- Political ads are created and designed for communication of specific and targeted messages
- Organizations use personal data to target and influence our political views and ideologies
- Target ads rely on networks to distinguish between who sees specific messages
Recognition of polarization content
Great ideas/key concepts: Students understand this:
- Absolute contributions to polarization
- Polarization is pushing us to more extreme opinions of apart or insulting our values
- Polarization may benefit political groups, advertisers and technical platforms
Investigation of election disinformation
Great ideas/key concepts: Students understand this:
- Sometimes there is one best source for a particular information
- The best source of information about the election process is the relevant election office
These lessons and all associated documents (leaflets, overhead costs, background) are available in the Easy-Print version, PDF Kit.