<aside> ⌛ Estimated student time on platform: 60 minutes (+ blending).
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<aside> 1️⃣ Difficulty level: 1 (for middle school, high school and higher education)
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<aside> 🗣 Lesson host: Tracie Potts, NBC News Channel.
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<aside> ✔️ Assessments: 15 total (14 auto-graded and 1 teacher-evaluable)
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<aside> 🗒️ Standards: This lesson has Common Core, ISTE, C3 and state-specific alignments. Find your standards in the Checkology alignments dropdown menu to learn more.
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Learning objective(s):
Essential questions:
Background:
As the amount of information at our fingertips grows at an unprecedented rate, filtering information is an increasingly essential news literacy skill. The foundational concepts of “InfoZones” help guide students to the vital realization that not all information is created equal and that the credibility of different types of information is often correlated with their purpose. By helping students discover six primary purposes of information, you can help them develop the habit of questioning the purpose of all the information they encounter.
Of course, most pieces of information have more than one purpose — a television show that is produced to be entertaining can also be informative, for example, or an advertisement produced to sell a product or service can also entertain — but this lesson helps students understand that almost all the information they encounter has one primary purpose that has a significant effect on its credibility.
Primary purposes and zones:
Definitions for each purpose and zone are in the Word Wall section of the dashboard.
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