Digital Citizenship

Digital Citizenship

Practice

Why was this Instagram post shared?

Motive

Multiple Choice

Read the post carefully before you decide.

• To sell

• To inform

• To influence

• To persuade

This post was made to influence opinion towards resource industries.

Why was this article written?

Motive

Multiple Choice

Think about your answer...

• To sell

• To influence

• To inform

• To persuade

This article was written to explain the cause of the California wildfire.

Why was this article written?

Motive

Multiple Choice

Think about your answer...

• To sell

• To influence

• To entertain

• To persuade

This article offers humorous commentary on Canadian and world issues.

Factual Claims vs. Value Claims

Multiple Choice

Smoking causes cancer.

• Factual claim

• Value Claim

Multiple Choice

Animal Crossing is the most relaxing game.

• Factual Claim

• Value Claim

Multiple Choice

Eating meat is unhealthy.

• Factual claim

• Value claim

Multiple Choice

The Earth is flat.

• Factual claim

• Value Claim

Wikipedia Trick

Delete all the text after .com (or .ca/.org) and add Wikipedia. Do a quick scan to see what Wikipedia says about the source.

Natural News

Use Wikipedia to learn more about this site, and respond to the questions below. 

https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-01-25-could-the-cure-for-cancer-be-in-orchids.html

Multiple Choice

After reading some of the information on Wikipedia, do you think "Natural News" is a reliable source?

• yes

• no

Check the Claim

Remember your fact checking sites: Snopes, factcheck.org, Politifact...and you can also do a search for other reliable sources who report on the claim.

Multiple Choice

Check the following claim: "Covid was spread through chicken wings in China." After you do your research, answer the following question: Based on your search, do you think this happened, more or less as described?

• yes

• no

Trace the information

Think about false context.

Multiple Choice

Investigate the source of the following quote: “Life is far too important to be taken seriously.” — Oscar Wilde

Did he actually say this?

• yes

• he was misquoted