Audience
Attendees
Number of facilitators
Level
Preparation
Activity
Description
Snapchat is one of the most popular social media platform amongst adolescents. However, social media is not only for posting filtered cat pictures, it is also for keeping up to date with news and informing others. Participants will explore Snapchat Discover (a tool suggesting stories published by the media) before putting together an informative story themselves.
Objectives
Online information
Social media
Snapchat
Source verification
Prerequisites for the audience
Knowledge of information sources
Knowledge of online content licensing
Equipment
Computers or tablets
Internet connection
Participants’ smartphones
Content used
Various online news sources
Social media (e.g. Twitter)
News sites (theguardian.com, nytimes.com)
Blogs
Newsletters
News aggregate sites (e.g. Google News)