1. Evaluating Online content
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2. Evaluating Online Content
List of Activities
Reference
Title
Level
EL04_L1
Brainstorming: What is a fact? What is an opinion?
L1- Easy
Video watching: “Fact & Opinion”
EL04_L2
Image observation
L2- Moderate
Image falsification
False and misleading online content
Self-evaluation Quiz

3. Activity 1: Brainstorming: What is a fact? What is an opinion?
Level: L1- Easy
Duration: 10 mins

4. Activity 1 Brainstorming: What is a fact? What is an opinion?
Short description
In this ice-breaking activity teacher introduce these two terms fact and opinion and asks students to share their ideas.
Goals
to elicit student's ideas,
to increase students’ participation
Requirements – Instructions
The realization of the activity requires:
computer, internet connection, projector

5. Activity 1 Brainstorming: What is a fact? What is an opinion?
Scenario
Teacher writes down the two term and asks students to share their ideas.
Which verbs do we use to express our opinion and which verbs we use for stating a fact?
Teacher types student’s answers on a Padlet or on the white board.
Figure 1

6. Activity 2: Video watching: “Fact & Opinion”
Level: L1- Easy
Duration: 10 mins

7. Activity 2 Video watching: “Fact & Opinion”
Short description
In this activity students watch a video that presents the differences between fact and opinion.
Goals
to recognize the differences between fact and opinion,
to express sentences that state facts or opinions.
Requirements – Instructions
The realization of the activity requires:
Computer, internet connection, projector
Video is available on

8. Activity 2 Video watching: “Fact & Opinion”
Scenario Students watch the video “Fact & Opinion” (duration 00:02:10). Teacher states sentences like: “Coffee is a brewed drink”, “Coffee makes you stay awake” and asks students “Is it a fact or opinion?”

9. Activity 3 Image observation
Level: L2- Medium
Duration: 10 mins

10. Activity 3 Image observation
Short description
In this activity students observe an image, read the headlines that are written on it and try to define which of them state fact or opinion.
Goals
to discriminate between facts and opinions,
to develop critical thinking skills and visual thinking skills.
Requirements – Instructions
The realization of the activity requires:
Computer, internet connection, projector
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11. Activity 3 Image observation
Figure 2

12. Activity 3 Image observation
Their clothes are dirty.
Some bystanders are deriding
instead of helping.
Those two men
are helping
the third one to stand up.
Those two men are forcing
the third one to fall down.
Figure 3

13. Activity 4 Image falsification
Level: L2- Medium
Duration: 10 mins

14. Activity 4 Image falsification
Short description
In this activity students observe images that have been published on the Internet and try to find out if they are real or falsified.
Goals
to realize that everything we see online is not always true,
to identify the social and cultural implications of image falsification
Requirements – Instructions
The realization of the activity requires:
Computer, internet connection, projector
Real or Photoshop? photoshop/index.html
The Telegraph, The worst Photoshop fails of celebrity women you're likely to see, here

15. Activity 4 Image falsification
Scenario Teachers displays images and ask students to decide whether they are real or falsified. Teacher starts a discussion.
How easy it is to digitally alter a photo?
By whom are digital photos edited?
Why is this happen?
What is photo manipulation?
Are there any social and cultural implications from photo manipulation?
Figure 4

16. Activity 5 False and misleading online content
Level: L2- Medium
Duration: 30 mins

17. Activity 5 False and misleading online content
Short description
In this activity students read on an online article and evaluate its reliability.
Goals
to use specific techniques and criteria in order to evaluate the reliability of online content,
to recognize fake news, hoaxes, clickbait.

18. Activity 5 False and misleading online content
Requirements – Instructions
The realization of the activity requires:
Computer, internet connection, projector
The Crap Test, crap-test/
WorkSheet eSL+_EL04_Exercise _2.pdf.

19. Activity 5 False and misleading online content
Scenario
Teacher gives students an online article URL and asks students to read it and evaluate it by using a Worksheet based on CRAP Test. Through the evaluation process students are focusing on;
The headline formation
The main text formation
The hyperlinks (are they valid and credible?)
Who is the creator or author? When it was published?
The URL extension, Are there advertisements on the website?
Students are guided to further research on the Internet for user’s comments or republications. At the end, teacher ask them the reason why this article is published.

20. Activity 6 Self-evaluation Quiz
Level: L2- Medium
Duration: 10 mins

21. Activity 6 Self-evaluation Quiz
Short description
In this activity students run a Quiz for Android devices.
Goals
to self-assessing the knowledge they gained

22. Activity 6 Self-evaluation Quiz
Requirements – Instructions
The realization of the activity requires:
Android devices or Android emulator for pc (for example BlueStacks)
The app is available on Google Play stella.eSLPLUS_clock
Printed edition is also avalaible eSL+_EL04_Exercise _1.pdf.

23. Activity 6 Self-evaluation Quiz
Scenario
The quiz is consisted of 16 questions.
For each question, there are 4 option answers given.
The Quiz is available on Play Store for Android devices but it can be also run in a pc by using an Android emulator (for example BlueStacks). Students can run the Quiz both at school or at home.
Printed edition is also avalaible eSL+_EL04_Exercise _1.pdf