Students will learn the potential costs and benefits of social media, digital …
Students will learn the potential costs and benefits of social media, digital consumption, and our relationship with technology as a society in the three-week lesson. This inquiry based unit of study will answer the following questions:
Essential Question: How can we use science fiction’s ability to predict the future to help humanity?
Supportive Questions 1: What predictions of future development has science fiction accurately made in the past? This can include technology, privacy, medicine, social justice, political, environmental, education, and economic.
Supportive Question 2: What predictions for future development in contemporary science fiction are positive for the future of humanity? What factors need to begin in your lifetime to make these predictions reality?
Supportive Question 3: What predictions for future development in contemporary science fiction are negative for the future of humanity? What factors need to begin in your lifetime to stop these negative outcomes?
This lesson introduces students to lateral reading, a strategy for investigating who's …
This lesson introduces students to lateral reading, a strategy for investigating who's behind an unfamiliar online source by leaving the webpage and opening a new browser tab to see what trusted websites say about the unknown source. Students watch the teacher model lateral reading and then have a chance to practice the strategy to determine who is behind a website and, ultimately, whether that website is trustworthy.
Lateral reading is challenging, and an approach that may work for one …
Lateral reading is challenging, and an approach that may work for one type of source might not work for another. This lesson is designed to provide students with the opportunity to practice lateral reading with a variety of sources.
This lesson is designed to be taught after the Intro to Lateral Reading lesson.
When trying to determine who is behind online information, students may be …
When trying to determine who is behind online information, students may be inclined to read vertically—to make judgments based on features internal to a website like its URL, design, functionality, or content. However, these features are not effective ways to evaluate a site and need to be explicitly challenged. This lesson asks students to evaluate a website and a post on social media by engaging in both vertical and lateral reading to see how they compare.
This lesson is designed to be taught after the Intro to Lateral Reading lesson.
Once students have completed the Intro to Lateral Reading lesson, they need …
Once students have completed the Intro to Lateral Reading lesson, they need opportunities to practice the strategy and develop flexible approaches for using it. This lesson is designed to provide students with focused practice reading laterally with articles from fact-checking organizations. Students are briefly introduced to fact-checking organizations and then practice reading laterally about a website using a fact-checking site.
This lesson provides students with opportunities to practice reading laterally with news …
This lesson provides students with opportunities to practice reading laterally with news stories. This lesson is designed to be taught following the Intro to Lateral Reading lesson.
In this lesson, students are introduced to using Wikipedia as a resource …
In this lesson, students are introduced to using Wikipedia as a resource for lateral reading. This lesson is designed to be taught following the Intro to Lateral Reading lesson.
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