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Lesson Plan March 14 2023

Media literacy lesson: The deceitful practice of quoting someone out of context

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.
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Lesson Plan January 26 2023

Media literacy lesson: How to fact-check the "fact" pages on Instagram

Learn to spot identify Instagram "fact" pages that actually spread misinformation
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Lesson Plan January 18 2023

Be MediaWise lesson 3: How to read upstream to bury misinformation that keeps coming back to life

Explore ways to bury misinformation that keeps popping up over and over again

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