• Begin with a YouTube song with all participants present (Expl. Aïcha, Cheb Khaled 1996)

• Highlights from the Trump-Harris presidential debate of 10 September 2024.

  • Message – Fact checker “In Springfied they're eating the dogs....” (5:42)

    What to do if there is no fact-checking?

  • Possible Answer: We have to be fact checkers ourselves (comparing different sources, checking the quality of sources, talking with other people, ...)

• Talk with a partner about your experiences with social media (what you love and what you consider difficult or problematic?). You can also show each other a TikTok film or an Instagram post. Do you have experience with fake news?

• 2 criteria for the pairs:

  1. You don’t know each other

  2. Different ages

• Which social media applications do you know? Which social media application do you use?

• Media criticism

• Media knowledge

• Media use

• Media creation

ChatGPT in Education

(Student uses ChatGPT for writing an Essay about Goethe, a famous German author. The teacher asks ChatGPT to evaluate the essay.)

• Search for examples of influencers. How do they present themselves?

• Can you tell the difference between AI images from real photos? (Link)

• Different perspectives tell different stories (Link)

• Caption of pictures: Take a picture and create captions (captions can give images a new meaning)

• Stick a photo or image onto a piece of paper and extend the image on all sides (Scan the QR code 2) (Link (S.6))

• Buy a food product with a picture on it and check if it looks the same, when you open the packaging.

  

• Example for persuasive media strategies: Dark Patterns: Which option would you choose and why?

  

• Think individually about which media activities give you energy?

• Which media activities take away energy from you? Would you like to change anything?