This lesson is a follow-up to learning the CRAAP strategy (or some other evaluation strategy) and allows students to put it into practice. This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website, "Who Am I Online?"
Social media is designed to allow users to freely post claims and evidence. Though this can make social media a powerful source of information, it also means that we must learn to verify sources, arguments, and evidence that are presented before we decide they are trustworthy. Different posts may require different approaches to verification, and the more flexible we are in deploying these strategies the less likely we are to be deceived by a misleading post.
This lesson will help students develop and practice methods for verifying sources, arguments, and evidence presented on social media.
Public sphere, public agenda, public opinion, public policy… What’s the difference? Students discover the relationships among these concepts and how they influence the issues we all discuss and care about.
Students will look at social medias and what identities are crafted in those formats, both for social media celebrities and their own digital footprints. This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website, "Who Am I Online?"