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Computers & Digital Literacy · Grade 7

Media Literacy and Information Reliability

Learners become careful readers of the media they meet every day. They tell news reports from opinion, analysis, sponsored content and satire; compare headlines with the articles under them and spot loaded language; check photos and videos that are edited or shown out of context; separate misinformation from disinformation; and see how recommendation feeds shape what they see. Lateral reading ties it together as a quick, practical habit.

  • 5 lessons
  • About 110 minutes
  • Media literacy check: 10 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, trace code, highlight a text, match pairs, type a number and put in order
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What learners will discover

  • Identify news reports, opinion, analysis, sponsored content and satire from their purpose and clues.
  • Compare a headline with the body of an article and tell loaded language from neutral wording.
  • Recognize manipulated or out-of-context photos and videos, and explain why a photo alone is not proof.
  • Distinguish misinformation from disinformation and explain why going viral is not evidence.
  • Explain how recommendation feeds can create filter bubbles, and use lateral reading to check a source or claim.

Lessons

  1. What kind of content is this? 6 steps4 practiceabout 22 min
  2. Headlines, bodies and loaded language 6 steps4 practiceabout 22 min
  3. Photos and videos are not automatically proof 6 steps4 practiceabout 22 min
  4. Misinformation, disinformation and going viral 5 steps3 practiceabout 20 min
  5. Feeds, filter bubbles and lateral reading 7 steps4 practiceabout 24 min
  6. Media literacy check 10 questions at the end

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