Fighting Fake News with Literacy Skills

mozfest-bot commented 7 years ago

[ UUID ] 0502fbfb-4739-4669-ada3-2429bbb6d1fc

[ Session Name ] Fighting Fake News with Literacy Skills [ Primary Space ] Web Literacy [ Secondary Space ] Youth Zone

[ Submitter's Name ] Sarah Morris [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Nucleus Learning Network [ Submitter's Github ] @secmorris

What will happen in your session?

In 2017 MisInfoCon brought together a diverse group, including technologists, educators, and journalists, to hack solutions to the current fake news epidemic. This proposed session hopes to bring the collaborative spirit of MisInfoCon to MozFest through a session where participants will hack a news and web literacy curriculum called Mission:Information. This curriculum seeks to empower youth to become strong consumers, producers, and distributors of media online.

After engaging in a kinesthetic warm-up activity, participants will explore and brainstorm ways to further develop the curriculum. Participants will break into groups and use tools like Thimble to work on ideas that resonate with them, whether it is adapting the curriculum for younger learners or developing associated computer science lessons.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

This proposed session aims to be highly collaborative, participatory, hands-on, and audience-driven. The main goals are, first, to introduce participants to issues and concerns related to fake news and misinformation. The second goal is to discover how Mozilla’s web literacy outcomes can support and enhance news literacy education. The third goal is to give participants an opportunity to explore, and consider ways to use, an open-source news and web literacy curriculum called Mission:Information. Finally, the last goal is to engage participants in a hacking session where they can contribute their ideas and skills and work on expanding and remixing the current curriculum. Participants will guide the direction of the session and determine the focus of their breakout working groups.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

Attendees are encouraged to bring a personal device to this proposed session. I would need a projector and basic office supplies such as post-it notes and pens.

Time needed

60 mins

omnignorant commented 7 years ago

@phillipadsmith @anmechung @flukeout @hannahkane flagging for y'all to keep track of --> @secmorris Mission:Information curriculum.

EPIKhub commented 7 years ago

@secmorris - Interesting session, would like to explore scope for a second session in the youth zone as part of our Social Action youth track

jonathanprozzi commented 7 years ago

Hello @secmorris!

Thank you for your proposal! I wanted to add myself to this issue and introduce myself.

secmorris commented 7 years ago

@EPIKhub Thank you! And I'd be very happy to explore scope for a second session in the youth zone. The Social Action youth track sounds right up my alley!

secmorris commented 7 years ago

Hi @jonathanprozzi - great to meet you, and thanks for adding yourself to the issue!

phillipadsmith commented 7 years ago

Subscribing.

phillipadsmith commented 7 years ago

@EPIKhub Any sense if you'll be taking this session into your space?

EPIKhub commented 7 years ago

@phillipadsmith not sure yet if we will do 2 sessions. I'll look at the schedule in the next 2 weeks to see where we are at with space

phillipadsmith commented 7 years ago

@EPIKhub Thank you for the update. Just to confirm: You've accepted the other session?

EPIKhub commented 7 years ago

@phillipadsmith no, I said I would look at the schedule first.

edovio commented 7 years ago

Hello @secmorris - We are very happy to announce you that we have decided to accept your session at the festival this year! Congratulations! 🎉 You'll receive soon news about how move forward with your proposal

secmorris commented 6 years ago

@edovio Great, thanks! Very excited and looking forward to learning more about next steps.

edovio commented 6 years ago

@secmorris, Thanks for your confirmation here! :)

jonathanprozzi commented 6 years ago

Hello @secmorris! As MozFest is approaching we’re asking that you reply to the issue with an outline of the topics or activities for your session. You don’t need to send your slidedeck to us, but if you could please reply to this issue with an outline of the topics and time estimates for your session that would be great.

I wanted to also check in about your proposed session length. Is there any way that you could trim down to 60 minutes? We have limited slots for 90 minutes and we want to see if this is a possibility. Please consider this as you send us your session outline. Thanks!

secmorris commented 6 years ago

@jonathanprozzi Hello! I'd be happy to trim things down to 60 minutes.

Here's an outline with time estimates. Let me know if you need any additional info!

Intros and Opening Discussion - 10 minutes will vary this accordingly based on attendee numbers Get attendees in small groups to discuss the following:

What brings you here today?
How would you define misinformation?
What work are you eager to do around combating misinformation?

Mission:Information Project Intro - 5-10 minutes

How it developed (response to fake news crisis, mapping to Mozilla web literacy)
Where it is now (open source, on GitHub and Thimble)
Potential ideas for growth (such as adapting the lessons for younger learners or adding more CS content)

Working Group Formation and Brainstorm - 5-10 minutes

Session participants will brainstorm working group ideas on post-it notes
Participants will decide what ideas resonate and what working groups they would like to form

Group Work - 25-30 minutes

Groups can collaborate and work together!

Wrap up - 5 minutes

Share out ways for participants to stay in touch and stay involved with the project (via GitHub, Slack, shared Google doc for resources)
Provide link to brief exit survey so participants can share feedback and ideas

edovio commented 6 years ago

Dear Facilitators, we are happy to share with you the MozFest facilitators 2017 Guide at the Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fezzIH8u0Li6pIHMNYDCuUjA_gHpB4Px9eXQo4Ol7es/edit It is also important to sign in here: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/festival.fabriders.facilitatorcoaching2017 for the coaching session, that helps you in your facilitation role! :)

flukeout commented 6 years ago

Thanks very much for the detailed outline @secmorris!

flukeout commented 6 years ago

Updated the session time from 90min to 60min.

flukeout commented 6 years ago

@secmorris - we've created the first version of the Web Literacy Space schedule for the weekend and wanted you to have a look...

Web Literacy Space Schedule
- We are still finalizing the longer Gallery Space session drop-in times.

Please take a few minutes to locate your session (I've had to abbreviate the session names) and let us know if you have any questions or if there are any reasons that you cannot host your session during the chosen time (like a travel conflict or another session you are hosting at the same time). Please comment in this issue and and include @flukeout to get my attention.

We'll be finalizing the schedule next week and updating the Guidebook app that attendees will use during the festival.

Thanks!

flukeout commented 6 years ago

@secmorris - I shot you an email about possibly switching your session to the same time on Sunday instead of Saturday at 12:45, when it's currently scheduled for. Let me know if that would work, we're trying to accommodate another session that can only get some youth helpers in on the Saturday. Cheers!

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