This activity aims to raise students’ awareness of how much time they spend being distracted by technology on a daily basis and how multiple information and communication channels can affect our daily lives (see Filtering literacy, what is it?). This activity is an adaptation of Activity 31: My digital Life in Dudeney, Hockly & Pegrum (2013: 217-221) … Continued
This activity aims to raise students’ awareness of the concept of word clouds, and to investigate how key words in a text can be visually represented in a word cloud (see Tagging literacy, what is it?). This activity is an adaptation of Activity 23: Travel clouds in Dudeney, Hockly & Pegrum (2013: 176-180). Learning outcomes On completion of … Continued
This activity aims to raise students’ awareness of the presence of fake news and its effects, and to have them understand the difference between fake news, news incorrectly reported, and satirical news. Learning outcomes On completion of this activity, students will be able to: critically evaluate information, take the time to cross check information, … Continued
This activity aims to raise students’ awareness of how search engines filter results for individuals, and how this can impact on one’s studies/work. Before attempting this activity, you may want to point students to the Search literacy… what is it? page or use some of the language specific content to consolidate their vocabulary and written and … Continued