Media Education Activity

What are different ways to think about this tweet?

When we scroll on social media, we must make decisions about whether to trust a post, like or repost it, think about how the media influences us, and who benefits or is harmed by representations. Use the questions below to discuss the tweet on the left.

Five Questions to Consider

  1. Is the information credible?

  2. Do I have enough information to interact with the post?

  3. How do my feelings affect my interpretation and actions?

  4. How does the type of media and design change my thinking?

  5. Who benefits from, and is harmed by, media representations?

Does seeing the larger Twitter interface help you answer question #4?

Read the “fact check” article on the tweet from the News Literacy Project (NLP). What did you get right or wrong?

Read the 2022 article from Social Education (to be posted soon) by Dan Krutka, Cathryn van Kessel, and Marie Heath to learn about five approaches to media education.

Which questions most helped you?