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‘I Can’t Believe It When I See It!’ A Primer on Spotting Misinformation | PBS NewsHour

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Title:

 ‘I Can’t Believe It When I See It!’ A Primer on Spotting Misinformation | PBS NewsHour

URL:

 https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/misinformation-primer-video/pbs-newshour/

Content Source:

 PBS
Type: Audio/Video

Overview:

Students will learn how misinformation with an image or video is more believable and can lead them to unintentionally share information that is misleading or inaccurate. Use this lesson to introduce students to the nuances of how misinformation spreads around major events, sometimes unintentionally, with a focus on the unintended consequences of sharing even “feel-good” misinformation. Students will learn how to recognize when to fact-check something and some basic fact-checking tools.

Students will address the following central questions:

How do you make sure the information in a social media post is accurate?
What is the motivation behind sharing misinformation intentionally or unintentionally?
How can sharing misinformation have unwanted consequences?

Students will be able to:
Explain how imagery is used to spread misinformation
Explain the difference between “disinformation” and “misinformation”
Analyze the motivation behind sharing disinformation and misinformation
Analyze the potential consequences of sharing misinformation
Recognize when to fact check
Fact check a suspect image, video, or claim with an appropriate tool

Content Standard(s):
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 7
13. Interpret language through active listening to determine subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility of digital sources.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
13.
  • Active listening
  • Subject
  • Occasion
  • Audience
  • Purpose
  • Tone
  • Credibility
  • Digital source
Knowledge:
13. Students know:
  • Active listening skills.
  • Digital sources have various subjects, appropriate occasions, intended audiences, purposes, and tones.
  • A credible source is free from bias and supported with relevant evidence.
Skills:
13. Students are able to:
  • Listen and interpret various attributes of a digital source, including its subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and overall credibility.
Understanding:
13. Students understand that:
  • Actively listening can help determine and assess important aspects of a digital source, including its credibility, intended audience, and overall subject, occasion, purpose, and tone.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 8
12. Interpret and evaluate language through active listening to determine subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility of digital sources.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
12.
  • Active listening
  • Credibility
  • Subject
  • Occasion
  • Audience
  • Purpose
  • Tone
  • Digital sources
Knowledge:
12. Students know:
  • Active listening skills.
  • Digital sources have various subjects, appropriate occasions, intended audiences, purposes, and tones.
  • A credible source is free from bias and supported with relevant evidence.
Skills:
12. Students are able to:
  • Listen and interpret various attributes of a digital source, including its subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and overall credibility.
  • Evaluate language through active listening.
Understanding:
12. Students understand that:
  • Actively listening can help interpret and evaluate important aspects of a digital source, including its credibility, intended audience, and overall subject, occasion, purpose, and tone.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 9
12. Interpret digital texts to determine their subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
12.
  • Digital text
  • Credibility
  • Subject
  • Occasion
  • Audience
  • Purpose
  • Tone
Knowledge:
12. Students know:
  • Digital texts, such as online academic journals, social media, and blogs, have various subjects, appropriate occasions, intended audiences, purposes, and tones.
  • A credible source is free from bias and supported with relevant evidence.
Skills:
12. Students are able to:
  • Identify and interpret the subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility of digital texts.
Understanding:
12. Students understand that:
  • It is important to evaluate the credibility of digital text.
  • Digital texts will focus on different subjects, be used on different occasions, are created with different intended audiences, have different purposes, and a variety of tones.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 10
12. Interpret digital texts to determine subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
12.
  • Digital text
  • Credibility
  • Subject
  • Occasion
  • Audience
  • Purpose
  • Tone
Knowledge:
12. Students know:
  • Digital texts, such as online academic journals, social media, and blogs, have various subjects, appropriate occasions, intended audiences, purposes, and tones.
  • A credible source is free from bias and supported with relevant evidence.
Skills:
12. Students are able to:
  • Identify and interpret the subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility of digital texts.
Understanding:
12. Students understand that:
  • It is important to evaluate the credibility of digital text.
  • Digital texts will focus on different subjects, be used on different occasions, are created with different intended audiences, have different purposes, and a variety of tones.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 11
15. Analyze digital texts and evaluate their effectiveness in terms of subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
15.
  • Analyze
  • Digital texts
  • Evaluate
  • Effectiveness
  • Subject
  • Occasion
  • Audience
  • Purpose
  • Tone
  • Credibility
Knowledge:
15. Students know:
  • Digital texts, such as online academic journals, social media, and blogs, have various subjects, appropriate occasions, intended audiences, purposes, and tones.
  • A credible source is free from bias and supported with relevant evidence.
  • Strategies to evaluate digital text based on a set of identified criteria.
Skills:
15. Students are able to:
  • Identify and analyze digital texts' subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of a digital text's subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility.
Understanding:
15. Students understand that:
  • It is important to evaluate the credibility of digital text.
  • Digital texts will focus on different subjects, be used on different occasions, are created with different intended audiences, have different purposes, and a variety of tones.
  • The effectiveness of a digital text can be assessed by identifying its subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 12
15. Analyze digital texts and evaluate their effectiveness in terms of subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
15.
  • Analyze
  • Digital texts
  • Evaluate
  • Effectiveness
  • Subject
  • Occasion
  • Audience
  • Purpose
  • Tone
  • Credibility
Knowledge:
15. Students know:
  • Digital texts, such as online academic journals, social media, and blogs, have various subjects, appropriate occasions, intended audiences, purposes, and tones.
  • A credible source is free from bias and supported with relevant evidence.
  • Strategies to evaluate digital text based on a set of identified criteria.
Skills:
15. Students are able to:
  • Identify and analyze digital texts' subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of a digital text's subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility.
Understanding:
15. Students understand that:
  • It is important to evaluate the credibility of digital text.
  • Digital texts will focus on different subjects, be used on different occasions, are created with different intended audiences, have different purposes, and a variety of tones.
  • The effectiveness of a digital text can be assessed by identifying its subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility.
Tags: Credible source, digital, diverse media, ethical research, evaluate
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