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Social Media: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #10 Instructional VideoSocial Media: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #10 Instructional Video
Publisher
Crash Course
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Grade
9th - Higher Ed
Subjects
21 Century Skills
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Resource Type
Instructional Videos
Media Length
16:51
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Duration
30 mins
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Year
2019
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Social Media: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #10

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Sixty-eight percent of adults in the United States get their news from their social media feed. What are the consequences? Scholars dive into the topic with a video on digital media. They discover how social media shapes people's offline behavior in surprising ways. 

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

Media Literacy, Digital Citizenship, the internet, information literacy, online communication, Social Media

Additional Tags

college and career readiness

Instructional Ideas

  • Invite learners to conduct informal polls to find out where their friends and family get their news
  • Have small groups discuss the pros and cons of using social media as a news source

Classroom Considerations

  • Lesson order matters, as previous videos from the series may provide helpful background information  
  • This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

  • Begins with an engaging animation that helps introduce the topic and builds student interest
  • Includes text and graphics to support spoken content 

Cons

  • None

Common Core

SL.9-10.3 SL.11-12.3

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