This document provides an outline for a class module on identifying misinformation online. The module includes activities to discuss experiencing news, grammar exercises, vocabulary practice related to digital footprints and fake news, group discussions on how misinformation spreads and its consequences, reading on photo filters, conditional grammar exercises, identifying advice for evaluating fake news, and a final project to create a poster characterizing a problem with misinformation on an issue like health, politics or the environment.

1. TO BE OR NOT TO BE
The Second Self
Class 2
MODULE 1:

2. The second Self
Spotting “Fake” News
and Images
on the INTERNET

3. The second Self
To understand why it’s important to
question/identify reliable information
of articles and images found on the
Internet.
To describe imaginary situations by
using conditional 3.
Learning
Goals

4. Activity 1: Warm up
What are the different ways
we experience the news?
Class discussion

6. The second Self
Activity 2:Grammar
• Now you do some exercises on page 51 of your material,
which will help you express regrets (exercises B and C).

7. Activity 3: Scaffolding Vocabulary
Where does this verb come from?
Is it a type of crime?
Do vocab activities related to digital footprint pg 53
(a,b,c,d)

8. Vocabulary Exercise C
Write the Word forms for the blue words
VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE
truth
fake
steal
victim
crime
fictional

9. Vocabulary Exercise C
Answers
VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE
--- truth true
fake fake fake
steal stealing stolen
victimize victim
criminalize crime
fiction fictional
Use the words in a sentence
(exercise D)

10. Activity 4: Challenge
Small group discussion:
• Scenario #1:
“News” reports tell of alleged gas shortage
in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
How can the spread of
misinformation have negative
consequences?

11. Activity 4: Challenge
Small group discussion:
How can the spread of
misinformation have negative
consequences?
Scenario #2:
You hear a rumor about a classmate at the university and
tell it to several others. You later learn the rumor is not
true, but you had a hand in spreading it around university.

12. Activity 5: Challenge
Reading
WHY do people do filters
in photos or Photoshop?

13. Activity 6: Scanning
Read the article and scan for information (exercise B)

14. Activity 7: Applying
knowledge controlled
Grammar
Conditional
SENTENCES
Exercises a, b, c d

15. Activity 8:Consolidating knowledge
Listening
1. Read the infographic “How to identify fake news
and categorize the advice in two ways:
Yes, I already do this
No, I don’t do this
2. Watch the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4o0B6IDo50
and have students identify advice given on how to
identify fake news.
OR
OR

16. Confirmation bias
The natural tendency to
seek out or favor information
that confirms what you already
believe to be true while at the
same time ignoring evidence
that contradicts your beliefs.
Activity 9:Consolidating knowledge
Listening

17. Confirmation bias
If you had come across an article, which one would you
have shared on social media if you believed left-handed
people were more creative than right-handed people?
ARTICLE A
ARTICLE B

18. Evaluating the credibility of images

19. Evaluating the credibility of images
Photoshopped image
of orca swimming in
flood waters near
Christchurch,
New Zealand

20. You are doing a research
paper on the effects of
nuclear radiation, and you
stumble upon this picture
posted on a photo sharing
site (Imgur).
Evaluating the credibility of images
How could you find out
whether this image is making
a true or false claim?

21. Project 1: Misinformation
Objective
To characterize the problem of misinformation
that affects our society on issues such as
health, politics, the environment, the digital
footprint, false marketing or social networks,
based on the fundamentals of the
methodology Design Thinking, through a
poster that is presented in a previously chosen
social network.

22. Project 1: Misinformation

23. Project 1: Misinformation

24. https://m.facebook.com/story.php
?story_fbid=5584911964854796&i
d=100000081437837
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=jCo-PHveZTg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
rnbcQT-b8ak
News during the Last presidential
election in Colombia

25. What to do today:
Date Activity What to hand-in
Session 1
In this session the project and its
methodology will be presented, and
students will be assigned into small
groups.
Document with general information
about the project: topic (health, politics,
environment, fingerprint or social
networks) and participants

26. Project 1 INTRODUCTORY SESSION
Participants
Topic
How to approach
the problem