An Introduction to Media Literacy

introducing the topic, defining related terms

VIDEO SCREENING: 

You can start with the video "Fake News explained: How disinformation spreads": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fQdzVbQlaU 

split the group into 4 to 5 smaller teams (mixed by their groups discuss the following questions: 

• What do you think about the video? 
• Which terms and topics were familiar for you and which were new? 
• Do you think these topics are part of media literacy? 
• What are other terms/concepts that you see around yourself that media literacy education should address? 

DISCUSSING THE VIDEO: 

different levels of knowledge) terms/ concepts were clustered (media literacy, fake news, desinformation, alternative facts, gate-keeping, framing, bias, cognitive dissonance, filter bubble, click-bait, social bots/ bots army,…) 

all partcipants decides which terms, conceps and definitions are neccessary for us build smaller teams - each team chooses terms/concepts 

SUMMARY OF THE DISCUSSION - CREATE A GLOSSARY 

each team does research about the terms/ concept, defines their term/concept and how it is related to the other terms/concepts 

RESEARCH 

teams present their definitions of the terms/concepts – serve as working basis for the workshops time for Q&A gallery with all the flipcharts: glossary

This activity had been introduced in the toolkit (page 8) created during the Training Course on media literacy Liars & Verifiers that was funded by Erasmus+.