Activity Preview: Fact-Checking

At MisinfoDay, we use the SIFT fact-checking method created by Mike Caulfield, which includes the skill of lateral reading, a term coined by the Stanford History Education Group.

For many educators, this represents a shift in the way they have historically taught students to evaluate information. Read more about this shift here:

• Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole
• Getting Beyond the CRAAP Test: A Conversation with Mike Caulfield
• To navigate the dangers of the web, you need critical thinking – but also critical ignoring

In order to give experienced SIFT-ers a chance to stretch their fact-checking muscles and novices a chance to learn, we plan to include a fact-checking activity in our Welcome Session at MisinfoDay 2022.

See a preview of the activity below. Come back later to check out the final version and consider using it at your own event.

Two Truths & a Lie: Social Media Edition

In each of the following groups of posts, two are true and one is false. Can you spot the lie? You have the whole internet at your disposal. Go!

Make a copy: Google Slides | Kahoot (coming soon)

Round 1: Food