4.1.3.
What Sources Do You Trust/Not Trust?
Type Objectives
Group activity, team building - Gain more knowledge about media literacy, fake news and the purpose of its creation; - Reflect on the importance of having the right information and how information can easily change; - Introduce trustworthy sites and their features. Duration 20min Group size 15-20 participants Materials Markers, flipchart & flipchart paper Description The facilitator divides participants in groups; give each group a marker and a sheet of flipchart paper. The groups are asked to write down on the flip chart paper what sources they do trust and not trust (for example, one they trust is a government website and one they do not trust is a news article on a social media website). Once they write down and discuss which sites they trust and which they don’t trust, the facilitator is asking participants why they think a site is trustworthy or not. After the discussion the facilitator reveals which of the sites that the participants chose are trustworthy and why. The facilitator willshare an online resource, a website that helps discerning what is true and what is not: snopes.com and fact check if the sources written down on the flipchart paper. Debriefing & Were you aware of these fact checking sources? Reflection What did you learn from your colleagues? Learning Digital competence: Understand which media the group thinks are more outcomes trustworthy (print media, social media, radio) and why. Learning to learn: Analysing why we trust certain sources and not others.
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Social and civic competences: Knowing which media are more trustworthy is crucial for making informed decisions as a citizen; To prepare for this method, the facilitator will do research for online fact checking sources – these can be specific for each location. snopes.com libguides.lmu.edu
