Do you want to teach children how to navigate the overwhelming flood of news and protect them from fake news? In my interactive workshop, children aged 10 to 14 will discover how to select reliable news articles and recognize fake news. With practical assignments and engaging examples, we’ll teach them media literacy. As an investigative journalist, I have years of experience conducting research, reporting on the news, and separating facts from fiction. Read on to discover what this workshop entails and the skills the children will acquire.
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Learning objectives of the workshop
In this workshop, children will learn:
• Critically evaluate different news sources
• How journalists select news
• The dangers of using AI
• How to separate facts from opinions and rumors
• Recognize signs of fake news
• Compare articles, identify discrepancies, and verify facts
With these basic skills, they will increase their media literacy and confidence when dealing with online information.
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Program overview
1. Introduction and Icebreaker
We’ll start with a quiz about news and fake news and identify which sources the children use themselves.
2. What is news?
Explanation of news values: current events, interests, and appealing to emotions.
3. A small own investigation
Hands-on assignments: checking websites for author, date, sources, and contact information.
4. Recognizing fake news
Analyzing examples of viral posts, edited images, and clickbait titles. We’ll also address the lack of monitoring by social media on the content on their platforms.
5. Using AI
We’ll look at how AI hallucinates while sounding very convincing. Together, we’ll discover how to avoid falling for these hallucinations and use AI safely.
6. Practical case
In groups, children will check a short news item for fact and fiction.
7. Reflection and tips
Evaluation, tips to use at home, and a recap for reliable news consumption in the future.
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Results and skills
After the workshop, children will have:
• A personal step-by-step plan for evaluating news
• A more critical attitude toward what they read
• Knowledge of reliable fact-checking methods
• Awareness of how social media algorithms work
• Awareness of the dangers of AI
• Skills to check every news item for fact versus fiction
These results will help them at school, in conversations with others, and later in further education.
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Practical information
• Target group: children aged 10–14
• Duration: 2.5 hours with a short break
• Group size: minimum 8 participants, maximum 25 participants
• Location: At your location. No travel costs within 10 km of Eindhoven; further locations upon request.
• Fee: €550 per workshop (including all materials)
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Register
Would you like to book this workshop for your class or school? Send an email to info@bridgetj.nl or call 0(031)6-43863279. I also offer this workshop in Dutch.