Team Presentations: Can You Figure Out the Truth?

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icon_deepdive_52px.png Context of assignment  

This assignment is designed to engage students in practicing identifying misinformation.
  • Subjects this assignment is best suited for:  any
  • Class size best suited for:  15-100
  • This assignment will be worth [XX] number of points.

icon_target_52px.png Learning outcomes for students

  1. To determine misinformation within a story/source.
  2. To analyze an article to understand a story/source. 
  3. To identify persuasive tactics that news sources may use. 

icon_eye_52px.png What students will need before this assignment

  • Training on how to identify misinformation and fake news. 

icon_assignment_52px.png Assignment:

Students will work in teams to first find a news story.  From here, students will analyze the article/source to understand each aspect of the story.  Students will then begin creating their presentation. The catch? They are not bound by truth.
As presenters, students will work to construct the best story to catch the audience’s attention. The teams can decide to tell the true facts of the story, make up all of the details of the story, or use some real facts and some fake.  As the audience, students will try to identify what is the truth and what is fake. 
Adapted from IU Libraries Course Development Grant Application written by Hanson, K., and Wyant, N., BUS-T144 "All the Fake News That's Fit to Print."
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