EDCI 5784: Inquiry-Based Learning with Digital Technologies: Mis/Disinformation

Circle of Trust: Have students examine who they trust for information and how those people might be same or different from them. Discuss the effect of filter bubbles. 

Fact-Checking: Have students fact-check interesting examples of mis/disinformation, including media like images, videos, and more. 

Propaganda Card Sort: Have students sort examples of propaganda based on strategy and effect. Discuss different ways and nuance of how propaganda operates. Potential examples for card sort. 

Propaganda Definitions: Have students examine different definitions of propaganda and write their own definition to try and distill what propaganda is, what is does, and how it operates. 

Follow a Professional Fact-Checker: Have students read through a professional fact-checkers process on a site like Snopes. See if they can identify and describe the process. Then discuss fact-checking methods like SIFT. 

Detective Chronicles: Have students discuss famous fictional detectives or a famous detective story and decide, "What makes a good detective?" Then have them compare this list of attributes to the SIFT method. Finally have them write up what it means to be a good information detective. 

misinformation: false information that is spread, regardless of whether there is intent to mislead 

disinformation: deliberately misleading or biased information; manipulated narrative or facts; propaganda

fake news: purposefully crafted, sensational, emotionally charged, misleading or totally fabricated information that mimics the form of mainstream news

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