Online materials to build resilience against fake or misleading content

  • IDEA
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  • 2023. 07. 26.
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Target group | Students aged 13-18 years.

Objective | The objective of the material

  • developing the knowledge, attitudes and tools that empowers the respective age groups to assess the credibility and authenticity of online content
  • enhance reflective and critical awareness.
In this supportive learning environment, students can acquire skills to
  • identify quality content through various aspects;
  • identify manipulation techniques and argumentative fallacies;
  • think reflectively and critically;
  • use the foundation toolset of fact-checking,
while solving exercises, through error and progress.

Topics and Development Objectives | The 4 topics of the e-learning courses:

Topic 1: Manipulative communication techniques
Development objectives:

    • prepare students to independently recogni se the situations and types of content where caution and critical awareness is necessary to verify the information.
The material builds on the following questions: What are the typical types of fake content? What kind of cognitive methods influence our susceptibility to misleading information? Which digital tools are used in the production and dissemination of misleading content (Photoshop, deepfake, social networks, etc.)? How can a video be real and misleading at the same time?

Topic 2: The traits of quality content
Development objectives:

  • introducing the traits of quality content practice their recognition;
  • showcasing authentic and credible news outputs that abide by professional and ethical standards; building trust towards reliable news media;
  • emphasize healthy scepsis instead of promoting cynicism.
The material builds on the following questions: Are there reliable new sources? What are the elements of a quality news article and how is it structured? How do journalists choose their sources? What should appear in an article and what doesn’t belong to a quality piece?

Topic 3: Development of critical thinking skills
Development objectives:

  • raise information consumption awareness;
  • enhance reflective behavior;
  • introducing and applying cognitive strategies and tools.
The material builds on the following questions: How and what to ask if we want to look at the authenticity of a piece of information? What techniques are most useful in practice? How does reflective thinking help us?

Topic 4: The toolset of fact-checking
Development objectives:

  • ability to use various online tools that help the process on information verification.
The material builds on the following questions: What tools can be used to check fake or misleading content and to find the original publication of a content? (reverse image search, metadata analysis, etc.)

Processing the materials | The materials are primarily designed to be processed independently but to help educators’ work, each e-learning material is accompanied by teacher guides.

Research and assessment in support of the project | In order for the program to reflect on real-life problems, for the e-learning materials to serve as a niche program in Hungarian, and for the implementation to be carried out through tested means, the following research and assessment has been made prior to the material development:

  • Review of Hungarian online materials aimed at critical media literacy in order to see which subsegments of media awareness and critical thinking development are not adequately covered;
  • Review of foreign-language programs to identify best practices.
  • Teenager working group supports the development of the age appropriate curricula
Schedule
| The planned publication date of the first topic is October 31st, 2023. The complete e-learning package will be uploaded to the website by February 2025.

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