The Conspiracy Test is a gamified interactive platform to help increase healthy scepticism for conspiracy theories. Users can select a theory they think might be true, set a baseline of scepticism, and challenge themselves through a series of self-directed steps to increase their critical thinking score. This is a collaboration between the School of Thought
Lateral reading is a powerful and effective technique used by factcheckers to evaluate the accuracy and reliability of information online. The Civic Online Reasoning project from the Stanford University offers a sequence of lessons that teachers can use to model lateral reading and guide students through a series of structured activities to develop and improve
SMILES is a media literacy project containing lesson plans and videos to help young people combat fake information. Collaborating partners from the Netherlands, Spain, and Belgium developed and tested innovative fake news interventions in secondary schools, led by teachers and librarians, to evaluate their effectiveness in tackling disinformation. Please click on the link below to
Childnet is a UK-based charity that aims to empower children, young people, and those who support them in their online lives, making the internet an enjoyable and safe place. There are over 60 resources available on their website that can be filtered by age group, topic and format of resource. Please click on the link
The Bad News Game is a game that exposes tactics and manipulation techniques (impersonation, emotion, polarization, conspiracy, discredit, trolling) that are used to mislead people and build up a following. Bad News works as a psychological “vaccine” against disinformation. According to the developers, by playing it, it builds cognitive resistance against common forms of manipulation that
Interland, developed by Google, is an interactive, online game that teaches kids aged between 7-12 the key lessons of internet safety. It explores four lands where children learn about sharing personal information, cyberbullying, what and who to trust online and spotting misleading information. Please click on the link below to access the content: https://beinternetlegends.withgoogle.com/en_ie/interland
This resource contains lesson plans and worksheets developed by the Guardian Foundation which aim to empower young people to understand, critically analyse, engage with and participate in the media. It also includes resources for people with additional needs. Please click on the link below to access the content: https://theguardianfoundation.org/programmes/behind-the-headlines/secondary-teaching-resources
Break the Fake is an educational resource developed by MediaSmarts, Canda’s Centre for Digital Media Literacy about mis/disinformation. It contains lesson plans, videos and quizzes for young people. MediaSmarts have many other media literacy resources that explore the online world. Please click on the link below to access the content: https://mediasmarts.ca/break-fake