Run the Presses

Made by Sarah Morris and the Mission:Information team including Mateo Clarke, Sean Dellis, Mike Kanin, Robert Friedman, and Mozilla.

50-60 minutes

Lesson 3 of 3 in the Mission:Information series

Place your learners in the editor’s chair to let them decide what to publish, and then experience the consequences of those decisions. Equip your learners with skills to be better consumers and distributors of news media. Help your learners strengthen their critical thinking, media literacy, and communication skills while practicing skills like connect and contribute.

Web Literacy Skills

21st Century Skills

Internet Health Outcomes

Learning Objectives

  • Discuss the consequences of misinformation and fake news
  • Recognize how misinformation has evolved over time and throughout history
  • Analyze and explain factors that contribute to the creation and consumption of misinformation
  • Examine bias within different types of information and different types of consumers of information
  • Explore strategies to combat fake news using synthesized information about the characteristics of fake news

Audience

  • Beginner web user – Middle grade learners age 10+
  • Intermediate web user – Upper grade learners age 13+

Materials

  • See all Mission:Information materials, organized by lesson, in this Mission:Information Google Drive Folder. Please use the links below to make a copy of the online worksheet which is in Google Forms
  • Run the Presses online worksheet. Note that these links will take you to a login screen. Login with a Google account (any Google Education account will work) and then confirm that you wish to make a copy when prompted.
  • Run the Presses printable game directions
  • Historic examples of fake news and misinformation
  • Run the Presses printable scenario cards
  • Paper for brainstorming
  • Blank paper for the Map the News activity
  • Pens/Pencils for notes
  • Run the Presses Assessment Rubric
  • Standards Mapping Document
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