Course 2 | Media Literacy
24h
10 Lessons
Let’s start your Media Literacy path
When we seek information online, we often encounter content whose author and source remain unknown to us. We frequently consume information without even intending to educate ourselves.
Do we pay attention to who creates the content that informs us about news, events, or opinions on current affairs on social media platforms?
When we read news via a Google search, do we know which site is most reliable for a specific subject area? When we encounter photographs, images, videos, are we conscious that they could be manipulated, retouched, or used outside of the context for which they were produced?
The landscape of information has significantly evolved over the past 20 years. The media literacy course we have designed begins here.
✔️We will comprehend the milestones, the emergence of new platforms, modes, and tools through which information is produced, transmitted, and disseminated
✔️We will introduce you to the 3-steps method, a strategy for
remembering the elements that constitute a piece of news (sources, content, and context)
✔️We will apply it in various case studies, using tools to identify
uninformative content and sponsored news
Curriculum
Module 1: Manipulated images
8 hours
What you will find
Images that are sent to us via WhatsApp, photos shared on social media or on websites: we know they can be “photoshopped”. But how? Are we aware of the strategies that can be used to manipulate images? Do we know the tools to use to verify their reliability? How can we trace information about the images that accompany an online news story?
In this module:
✔️We will start from the birth of photography, to understand what has changed up to today;
✔️We will discover the main types of manipulation put into practice, to learn to recognize them and ask the right questions;
✔️We will put into practice what we have learned through the use of useful tools to verify the reliability of the images we find online.
Module 2: Fake News
8 hours
What you will find
We often hear the term “fake news”, but it’s important to ask what makes a piece of news unreliable, a source untrustworthy, or content uninformative. Disinformation has always existed, long before the internet and social media posts, let’s learn together to recognize it online as well.
In this module:
✔️We will start by defining what forms of disinformation are and what
✔️We will then learn what elements you can analyze to verify the reliability of a website
✔️We will put into practice the use of useful tools to verify the reliability of a piece of news
✔️We will dive into the conspiracy theories world
Module 3: Activities
8 hours
What you will find
We’ve designed 5 activities to help you improve your fact-checking skills. Try them alone or with your students and let us know how you do!