Think of 6 Before You Click (IMI-M2-01-EN)

• To provoke fact-checking evaluation of the evidence supporting claims made in
• To stimulate information verification
• To motivate evaluation of evidence in media publications and reading between the lines
• To urge reflection on one’s own experience with information disorder

• Students
• Adolescent youth
• Educators, trainers, councillors, youth workers
• Any citizen

The participants are presented with news stories in print or social media headlines. Their task is to analyse the content and its representation based on a set of 6 basic questions.

Energizer (10 minutes)

The facilitator gathers together the participants and explains the procedure of the activity. The participants are asked to work alone or in small teams of 2-3 persons at most.

Think 6 Before You Click (20 minutes)

Each participant is given a copy of a news story in print or a link where the story is published and an analysis worksheet. The analysis worksheet includes 6 boxes that need to be filled-in:

• Box 1. Who wrote the news story?
• Box 2: What is it about?
• Box 3: Where did it happen?
• Box 4: When did is take place?
• Box 5: How did the story evolve?
• Box 6: Why?

The participants need to reply base on the information in the news story as while double-checking the statement in other publications of the same time and other source. Logical fallacies in the text (if any) must be considered as well.

Debriefing (10 minutes)

The facilitator asks the participants to present their findings and conclusion about the authenticity and trustfulness of the information presented in the news stories they analysed. Further, the participants are requested to dwell on their own experience with news release they considered untrustworthy and why.

• Flipchart or in-class screen – for sketching the rules of the activity
• Note-pads and pens/pencils
• E-electronic devices with Internet access

• Analysis
• Fact-checking
• Reflection
• Discussion

Start the activity with a 5-munute introduction, explaining the mode of conduct within the group – respect, tolerance, listening without interruption.

Daly, Tony, Ryan, Hellen (2021). Facts Matter: A guide to building critical media literacy in today's world, National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA), Retrieved from https://www.nala.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Facts-Matter-a-guide-for-tutors.pdf

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