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    Activity 1.

    1: Your Media Habits

     Ask someone face-to-face


     Turn on the radio
     Turn on a television
     Text someone to find out (friend or family)
     Google it and read info under first link
    If you heard from a friend  Check social media platform (TikTok, IG, Snapchat)
    that there was a meteor  Try to find it on a news platform (CTV, CBC, CNN,
    crash in your city/town, how BBC)
    would you confirm this story?  Try to see if it comes up in several different online
    platforms
     Other: ______________________________

     Friends
     Family
     News stations on TV- reliable sources and easily
    accessible for me
     The radio- reliable sources and easily accessible
    What are your main sources  Online news stories from mainstream media (CBC,
    of news and information and CTV, CNN, Toronto Star, Hamilton Spectator)
    why?  Online news stories from other sites (6Buzz,
    InfoWars, Rebel Media)
     Social media posts
     Other: ______________________________

     Multiple times per day


    How often do you share news  Once per day
    with your friends through  3-4 days per week
    social media or messaging  Once per week
    apps?  A few times per month
     Almost never

     Yes
     No
    Do you ever check to see if  Sometimes – it depends on the story. For
    news is true before sharing example: __________________
    it?
    Write down THREE things that you think make a website a
    credible source.

    1. A verified symbol

    2. A recent date
    When you come across an
    unfamiliar website, how do 3. Relevant to what you’ve searched for
    you know if you should trust
    it?

    I remember seeing something online about the actor


    Robert De Niro yelling at anti-Israel protesters on video in
    NYC. I thought that was false because he is a well-known
    and respected actor who would probably never do
    Identify a story you have seen something like that especially where lots of people would
    online that you thought was hear him and cancel him. It could ruin his career to do
    FALSE or misleading. How something like that. I learned later that it was part of a
    could you tell? movie and he wasn’t referring to the protesters.

     Not at all confident – I believe everything I read


    and see online
     I am ok – I recognized outright lies when I see
    How confident are you in them
    your ability to assess the  I am pretty good – my instincts tell me what fact
    quality of information you or fiction is
    see online?  I am really good – I can verify information as being
    false within minutes of investigating it

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