[aisle] Media Literacy Lesson

[Kim, Anna]

The sad thing is that this isn't the first time I've seen that message
being passed around.

Anna Kim
School Librarian
Chappell Elementary School
akim6 at cps.edu

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On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 10:35 AM Neha Thakkar via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> In this crazy era of not just a LOT of news, but of course, misinformation
> as well, I'd like to share a real-life lesson. My father-in-law sent a
> family group text with the info (screenshots attached). Go read the
> medialit 1 and 2 please. =)
>
> Read them? Ok...I showed them to 4th and asked them to read it.
> Immediately, many started taking deep breaths, "checking" if they had it.
> Then I showed the other message, and a lot of them got thirsty right away!
>
> I think a good lesson would be to discuss how to read a message like this,
> break down the fallacies, how to respond to these messages, and have them
> write a message back to a friend using https://ifaketextmessage.com/. (I
> attached my "text example". Who else would check her sources BUT Hermione
> :o).
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Thanks!
> Neha Thakkar   M.Ed, MLIS
> nehathakkar114 at gmail.com
> 630-452-5317
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