Fake news

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

 goals

-Authentic material

-Creativity

-Autonomy

- 21st century skills: critical thinking,information skills, media literacy

At the end of the lesson:

The student can tell what fake news is and recognize it.

 The student has thought critically about obtaining information from the media.

At the end of class you 

Do you think all the information you find on the internet is true?

Yes

No

Have you ever encountered fake news and if so what kind?

00:45

Why should you not always trust headlines?

01:48

Is fake news always comepletely untrue? Give an example with your answer.

02:25

What is confirmation bias? And what can you do against it.

03:21

Who are the first line of defense against fake news?

Task

Choose a topic and create a detailed mindmap with different  ideas about how you think fake news could be created and prevented for this topic.

If you can not think of a topic you can choose 1 of the following:

The football world cup

Corona

Santa claus

Polution

Finished early?: choose another topic and make a mindmap for it on the back of your paper.

Example