Activity #1
1. Provide an article from the Internet or a newspaper which is not the original source of the information or news story. An example could be this article from the I newspaper in the UK. Interestingly, the print and the online version are not entirely the same, with the latter providing more information, and written slightly differently. The advantage of an e-source would be the links that they provide, though that is not always the case.
2. You could proceed in two different ways, depending on the level of your students or the aims of the challenge. If you want your students to work out themselves what they should do to fact check the story by finding the original, you could set them the following challenge. My students would already have learned the following fact checking strategies which come from Mike Caulfield:
- Investigate the website (heavy on Wikipedia)
- Use a fact checking website
- Go upstream to the original source of the story/information
So they would be asked to do this:
- Verify this story and show your evidence
If students need more guidance, ask them to complete the following, which will take them through the process step by step:
- Check the newspaper from which you got the story to see if it is considered reliable.
- Look in the article to see if other possible sources of the story m
- Find the original source of the story and check that site's reliability
- Read the article and check any other sources mentioned in that article
- Decide whether facts of the story from the original source are reliable
- Compare the original story to its reincarnation in the article you were given (interesting to note how the facts or the emphasis may have changed)
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