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WorksheetsEnd of Unit: Media Literacy
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
Bias in media is:
rare
impossible to spot
beneficial to everyone
unavoidable
prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
Comparison
Bias
Favoritism
Ethnocentrism
content whose main purpose is to attract attention and encourage visitors to click on a link to a particular web page
Ads
Click Bait
Popups
Phishing Bait
A way of using humor to show that someone or something is foolish, weak, bad, etc.
Stand-up Comedy
Questioning
Satire
Flash Fire
What are the ways that you can check to see if news is real or fake?
Assume it's real
Check the URL
Check the source
Google it to see if it appears anywhere else
"Credible" means:
Nervous
Believable
Strange
Understandable
Deliberately constructed lies, in the form of news articles, meant to mislead the public is:
Satire
Click bait
Fake News
Credible
Which of these counts as "media"?
TV and radio
social media
websites
video games
all of the above
What is deep fake?
Wrong information on social media
Totally fake digital material produced with the help of Artificial intelligence
Modified pictures of people online using photoshop
Old stories presented as new ones
What can I do to check the validity of a video?
If it's on YouTube it's valid
Check comments under the video
Check who released the footage. Observe mouth and gestures of the person.
Check if your friends on Facebook shared it
What is the job of a fact-checking platform?
To publish false news stories and photos
To investigate false stories, debug them and present the truth
To select and promote the best stories on the web
To post news as fast as possible
When doing research and finding a reliable source, you should _________________.
Change all the information on the website
Look at all the advertisements
Find out the author of the site and their point of view.
Make sure the site has cool videos.
When finding a reliable source, which of these is important to do.
copy all the texts word for word and say it's your own
verify the date on the website
merge fictitious data on the site
look at all the advertisements
The act of comparing pieces of evidence and seeing if they agree or disagree is known as
Analysis
Contextualiztion
Causation and Consequence
Corroboration
To think about what was going on when a particular document was created, and to consider how that might have influenced the content of the document is known as
Causation
Contextualizaton
Corroboration
Periodization
Definition: Finding out who created a source, when, where, and why it was created in order to see if it is reliable
Sourcing
Contextualization
Close Reading
Corroboration
Definition: The act of thinking about the time and place in which a source is created in order to better understand it
Sourcing
Contextualization
Close Reading
Corroboration
The following questions represent which Historical Thinking skill?
What do other documents say? Do the documents agree? If not, why? What are other possible documents? What documents are most reliable?
Sourcing
Close Reading
Corroboration
Contextualization
