This lesson plan is designed to educate primary and secondary school students on the core concepts behind creative writing through film and TV. Each lesson plan is designed to guide participants through the industry process of creating a treatment (a plan) for a creative project, while applying creative writing skills using existing stories they already
Understanding how the political system works is part of the digital citizenship. EDUbox helps young people understand the political process by showing them how ideas translate into policy and how their vote influences outcomes. Useful for CSPE or Politics and Society class. Please click on the link below to access the content: https://www.mediawijs.be/en/edubox-politics
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
The 2023 Digital News Report by Reuters Institute shows insights on digital news consumption. The material is useful for people who want to have a better understanding of the current state of digital news consumption around the globe, and it also serves as a teaching resource for classes that discuss news media and journalism. Podcast-
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