Online Safety
Module 2: Media Literacy and Fake News
The module's learning objectives are:
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2.1 What is media literacy?
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Children and young people today are using the immense power of digital media to explore, connect, create, and learn in ways never before imagined. Safety and security concerns underscore the need for children and young people to learn -- and for teachers to teach -- digital literacy and citizenship skills and for schools to support their pupils to act responsibly and to use the internet in a better way.
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2.2 Fake news
2.3 Data privacy
In a digital age – and perhaps more so than ever before – business interests underlie our online media consumption patterns, which are largely taking place on platforms manufactured by large global corporations.
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2.4. Copyright, plagiarism, piracy
2.5 Towards a participatory culture?
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2.6 Additional resources
Media Scholar Henry Jenkins
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The Better Internet for Kids portal has highlighted some tips for identifying fake news from the UK Safer Internet Centre, which are based around four key questions:
3. Why was it created?
4. What is it saying? |
Module 2 Quiz
Module 2 has been completed.