Empathy Online is a free, self-directed learning course that explores why people behave in harmful ways in online spaces and what the learner can do to reduce online harm. Along with practical tools for responding to harmful behaviours, the course focuses on building empathy, self-compassion, and supportive online communities. Empathy Online uses bitesize information, videos
The Experience AI programme is available at the Kinia Academy, which is a community learning space for teachers, youth workers and volunteers that are working with young people. The programme offers cutting-edge resources on AI and machine learning for teachers and students. The aim of this programme is to empower learners to become critical consumers
The Webwise Parents Hub provides parents with advice from experts on key online safety topics, including: These free resources are available to download here: www.webwise.ie/parents
Equip yourself to be your own FactChecker. The Journal FactCheck, which has been targeting disinformation in Ireland since 2016, launched a brand new media literacy resource to allow members of the public to be their own fact-checker. The Knowledge Bank helps people to navigate complex news topics that are conversation and debate starters across the country.
The Conspiracy Test is a collaboration between the School of Thought and the University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project. It 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
The most recent Digital News report shows new insights on digital news consumption based on a survey of over 93,000 online news consumers in 46 markets covering half of the world’s population. The material is useful for people who want to have a better understanding of the current state of digital news consumption around the
The goal of this game is to expose the tactics and manipulation techniques that are used to mislead people and build up a following. Bad News works as a psychological “vaccine” against disinformation: according to the developers, playing it builds cognitive resistance against common forms of manipulation that you may encounter online. Please click on
In this report, Ofcom used a variety of methods to gain an insight into the online news landscape and how people consume online news. The use of social media as people’s main route to access news blurs the boundaries between news, entertainment, and social content, which creates difficulty in thinking critically when it comes to