Political memes are being deployed to share opinions, similar to how editorial cartoons were used in the past – but with one important difference.
Social Media
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Lesson Plan: The Bystander Effect
Students will learn how social psychologists developed the concept of the bystander effect to explain passive reactions to a shocking crime in 1964, and how that theory can help to explain concerning behavior online today.
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Lesson Plan: Online All the Time? Researchers Predicted It.
Students will learn about behaviorism and the method of learning called operant conditioning that was developed by B.F. Skinner in the 1960s, and will explore why social media psychology makes that work highly relevant today.
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Lesson Plan: The Rise of Political Memes
Students will learn about political cartoons and how today’s version — memes — are being used across social media.
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Lesson Plan: News Media and Politics
Students will hear how the nation’s leading reporters and media figures who covered Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign offer a candid critique of their role in the former president’s rise to power.
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Lesson Plan: Section 230 and Internet Law
Students will learn the pros and cons of Section 230, a 26-word snippet of a 1996 law that created the Internet as we know it.
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Lesson Plan: Reverse Image Search
Students will learn the skill of reverse image search and describe the process as applied to the provided examples.
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Lesson Plan: Lateral Reading
Students will learn how to fact-check a sensational story using a technique called lateral reading.
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Can You Spot Misinformation?
Think you can beat the experts in spotting misinformation? Watch this short video and find out.
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Where’s That Photo From? Identify the Source.
Online photos can be deceiving. Do you know how to identify the source? This skills-based video can help by teaching you how to use a reverse image search.
