Classroom

Learn how quotes have been manipulated to spread conspiracies about the 9/11 attacks and read upstream to find the original sources to explain how “contextomy” changed the meaning of quotes about a historical event.

Learn to evaluate the credibility of climate change claims on social media and analyze search engine results

Learn how to recognize when your social media feeds become an echo chamber and how to identify and evaluate claims based on science

Learn how to use Wikipedia responsively and how to recognize misinformation

Learn how screenshots can be manipulated and why manipulated screenshots often show up on social media

Learn how social media designed to scare can lead some to share misinformation

Equip your students with the tools to distinguish satirical news sources from legitimate news sources

Learn how some media sources have been built to deceive, and how to spot them

In this media literacy lesson, students design media literacy survival kits to help combat misinformation and conspiracy theories online

Discuss how conspiracy theories get started in this experiment in misinformation