MEDIA LITERACY

MEDIA LITERACY

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Open Ended

What is something you have seen go viral lately?

​VERTICAL READING

LATERAL READING

WHY YOU SHOULD READ LATERALLY

Reading vertically gives misinformation and disinformation more power. It allows people to hijack your consciousness, and it also makes you part of the problem

Reading LATERALLY- Instead of moving up to down, you are moving lateral, from tab to tab. In doing so you are Real-time fact-checking to help you figure out what’s real and what’s not on the internet.

Open Ended

Why is it important for information to be recent or relevant?

Multiple Choice

Which of the 5 C's addresses your "spidey sense?"

• Context

• Credibility

• Corroboration

• Comparing

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes lateral reading on the Internet?

• Opening a series of tabs to ensure the accuracy of a website.

• Obtaining various print sources to confirm the information you have found.

• A type of tool that many fact checkers use.

• Moving through a single piece of information on a webpage to ensure that it is factual.

Multiple Select

This form of fake news uses humor to make fun of current news stories

• Propaganda

• Satire

• Hoaxes

• BIas

Multiple Choice

What is a shocking headline called that is meant to get your attention?

• Satire

• Hoax

• Click Bait

• Propaganda

Poll

In your opinion...what have you seen the most of on Social media when it comes to sharing information

• people sharing news and information that is not true

• clickbait type of articles and ads that try to lure you in

• hoaxes and scams like free give aways and ability to win things

• Advertisements for me to buy things that I may have searched for or talked about

Multiple Choice

Sally is in support of a certain candidate. She seeks out news stories and opinion pieces that reaffirm the beliefs of this candidate. When she hears negative stories about her candidate in the media, she interprets them in a way that supports her existing beliefs. This is an example of:

• Confirmation bias

• Bandwagon bias

• Hindsight bias

• Ostrich bias

Multiple Choice

Sally keeps seeing a story over and over again about the other parties candidate pushing for new legislation for illegal immigrants. Sally sees it repeatedly on all of the news outlets she follows-which tend to be websites that are supportive of her political beliefs. Because she has seen this story so much she believes it must be true. This is called...

• Naïve realism

• Conformation Bias

• Motivated Reasoning

• Illusory Truth Effect

• Information Overload

Multiple Choice

Sally keeps noticing on her favorite news web page stories at the bottom and the side of her page. All of these articles are about immigration policies similar to ones she supports. Because these articles are on her news page she believes they must be true. This is called ...

• Inferred Legitimacy

• Conformation Bias

• Motivated Reasoning

• Illusory Truth Effect

• Information Overload

Multiple Choice

Sally talks to her friends a lot about her thoughts on immigration policies. Her one friend disagrees with her and has her own set of beliefs. Sally thinks her friend is uninformed, irrational and biased on the subject and that she is right because she is looking at the situation objectively. This is an example of ...

• Inferred Legitimacy

• Naïve Realism

• Motivated Reasoning

• Illusory Truth Effect

• Information Overload

Multiple Choice

Sally's friend constantly talks about how illegal immigrants are taking jobs away from her and her family and how much it costs their city to take care of them. Because of this Sally has strong political positions with regard to immigration. Her stance is emotionally tied to her friends problems and therefore her beliefs are supported by:

• Inferred Legitimacy

• Naïve Realism

• Motivated Reasoning

• Illusory Truth Effect

• Information Overload