About Lesson
Module 3: Critical Thinking Skills: Identifying Fake News Goal: The goal of this module is to break down the rather abstract concept of critical thinking and developing participants’ critical thinking skills, enabling them to identify and critically evaluate fake news in various digital contexts. By the end of the module, participants should be equipped with the knowledge and tools necessary to assess information critically and distinguish credible sources from misinformation.
Proposed Lessons:
- Unlocking News Media Literacy: The Power of Critical Thinking (PPT)
- Analysing a Conspiracy Theory: Presentation of a conspiracy video (potentially on the topic of migration) in which the audiovisual elements of conspiracy can be clearly identified. A discussion on the mechanisms of conspiracy may follow. Participants maybe prompted to analyse why disinformation spreads so fast and how it impacts people’s behaviour.
- Fact Checking Workshop: A hands-on workshop introducing and utilising fact-checking tools and techniques.
Critical thinking Bloom Taxonomy
| Learning Outcomes Matrix | |
|---|---|
| Knowledge | – Understanding of the concept of Fake news – Understand the concept of critical thinking – Understanding the different fake news – Understanding how to identify fake news using the concepts of critical thinking – Understanding the difference between a fact and an opinion |
| Skills | – Analysing information – Evaluating relevance and credibility – Reflecting and reasoning – Thinking critically and outside of the box – Clarifying, solving problems, and making better decisions – Questioning – Creating, developing, and producing new original and factual articles – Investigating and testing information to be factual or fake |
| Attitudes | – Applying: Execute, implement, solve, use, demonstrate, interpret, operate, schedule, and sketch information in new situations – Being able to explain, classify, describe, discuss, explain, identify, locate, recognise, report, select, and translate ideas and basic concepts of fake news and critical thinking – Remembering: Define, duplicate, list, memorise, repeat, state – Analysing: Differentiate, organise, relate, compare, contrast, distinguish, examine, experiment, question, and test different situations, ideas, connections, and scenarios of articles and concepts of fake news – Remembering: Define, duplicate, list, memorise, repeat, and state basic facts and concepts – Applying: Execute, implement, solve, use, demonstrate, interpret, operate, schedule, sketch – Evaluating: Appraise, argue, defend, judge, select, support, value, critique, weigh, and justify decisions, arguments, and points of view |