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SoMe and fake news
The focus of this theme is on the pros and cons of social media, fake news and how to determine reliable news, Further more the theme starts the preperation of the small academic paper that must be written at the end of the term.
Academic focus: evaluating
- reliable news: authority, purpose, objectivity, currency, reliability,
- fake news: intentionally deceptive, jokes taken at face value, hoaxes, slanted reporting of facts and stories where the truth is arguable, digital footprints and what we learn from Greek mythology concerning: Narcissus, Sisyphos, Atalanta and Orpheus.
Didactic focus: questionaires, quizlets and task-based exercises to initiate dialogue and reflection plus vocabulary work. The theme was concluded with a small project on the U. S. presidential election and Trump's request to buy Greenland. The themes ended with a cross-curricular project on abortion, together with the academic subjects of Danish, social studies and biology where the subject of English focused on fake (misinformation) vs. reliable sources.
Reading list:
- 'The use of internet sources', The English Handbook, Systime. https://theenglishhandbook.systime.dk/?id=169
- Evaluating internet sources. Write On - in English. Systime. https://writeon.systime.dk/?id=174&L=0
- SoMe prereading in Footprints on Systime. https://footprints.systime.dk/?id=136
- What is your digital footprint - do you want to leave? https://youtu.be/4P_gj3oRn8s
- Juan Enriques: Your digital footprints, permanent as a tattoo (TED Talk). Systime. https://footprints.systime.dk/?id=270
- 'My son, the Columbine high school shooter (The Guardian, 2016)
- 'Columbine High School Massacre - Was There a Third Shooter?' (Reddit.com, 2014). https://www.reddit.com/r/ConspiracyResearch/comments/1jsr1u/columbine_high_school_massacre_was_there_a_third/?rdt=61824
Project materials:
- 'Danish lawmaker shares her assessment of how Greenland feels about Trump'. CNN, January 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK3jn7M6mGM
- 'Greenland is necessary for international security: Donald Trump' . Sky News Australia, January 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btgYjz0YDI4
- 'Greenland: Why does the US want to buy it'. Al Jazeera, January, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btdSVJs7s8I
Supplementary materials:
- 'Fake News exposed - can you tell what's real?' (Channel 4, 2017). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLakMV6CNHk
- 'Asking Greenlanders about becoming a part of The United States' (the first 5 minutes). Nick Shirley, January 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndm5Xsq45jM
- 'Don Jr. CALLED OUT by Greenland for FAKE STUNT'. Adam Mockler, January 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk1X0jjC-Yk
Cross-curricular project on abortion:
- 'Common fake misinformation'. Pro-Choice North Carolina. https://prochoicenc.org/common-fake-womens-health-center-misinformation/
- 'What's wrong with abortion'. Heritage.org. https://www.heritage.org/how-speak-life/whats-wrong-abortion
- 'Abortion'. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. https://www.usccb.org/prolife/abortion
- 'Historical abortion statistics'. Compiled by Wm. Robert Jonston at Jonston's Archive. Updated, January 2025. https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/ab-greenland.html
- Jess Ford. 'A pro-life inspiration story: when my mom said no'. Focus on the Family, April 12, 2021. https://www.focusonthefamily.com/pro-life/a-pro-life-inspiration-story-when-my-mom-said-no/
- .Abortion out loud'. Advocates for Youth, visited February 2025. https://www.advocatesforyouth.org/abortion-out-loud-app/
Grammar based on 'Fejlstøvsugeren', 'Min Læring' and 'Engram' (Systime):
- the definite article (the): when and when not to use it.
- a recap on the relative pronouns: who, whom, which, that (with no comma in front) and whose
- interrogative pronouns: which and who
- prepositions in general
- prepositions of time
- prepositions + the infinitive
- prepositions + that
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