Google Internet Keep Safe Workshop 1: Detecting Lies and Staying True Instructor Handbook - Manual (Page 7)

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Description:
In this lesson, students will identify guidelines for Detecting Lies online and apply these
criteria to evaluate and compare online resources.
General Goals:
1. Students comprehend that just because it’s online doesn’t mean it’s true and learn
the guidelines on what information they can and can’t trust.
2. Students will evaluate and compare online information sources for accuracy,
relevance and bias.
3. Students will select appropriate information to match their specific task.
Objectives:
1. Students will identify rules for evaluating websites (knowledge and comprehension).
2. Students will apply evaluation criteria to specific online sources (application) .
3. Students will examine online information sources (analysis).
4. Students will compare 3 information sources and assess their relative quality
(evaluation).
Materials:
- Chart paper or chalk/white board or Smart board.
- Computer with Internet connection and screen projector device for presenter.
- Computers with Internet connection for students (recommended, but not
necessary).
- Student Handouts booklet for each student.
Activity Procedures (estimated time: 20 min.):
1. Introduce the topics by asking some True or False Questions (Instructor Toolkit).
2. Discuss the fact that everyone can write things on the web; although many things may be
interesting and correct, we can’t always be sure that everything is necessarily true and that
not everyone is an expert on the subject on which they write. Since we don’t always know
who wrote the information or what their credentials are, we need to be alert and check
information before we can trust it.
3. Inform the students that they are going to watch the first part of a video by Google,
Detecting Lies and Staying True ( www.ikeepsafe.org/youtube.html ) and ask them to list
the evaluation criteria that are presented in this video. Hand out While You Watch (Student
Handouts) to fill out as they watch the video or right after.
Say: “You are going to watch a short video (developed by the team at Google) that will talk
about guidelines on how to evaluate online resources. As you watch the video, please take
note of the guidelines for trusting a website”.