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This lesson plan is about organising a debate on the topic of ethnic and gender quotas on television programs. Besides instructions, it also contains arguments for both sides to help you prepare.

Deepfakes are on the rise and on the cusp of changing our relationship with recorded audio or video content forever.

In this lesson, students learn how deepfakes are made and what technological advances enabled their development. After looking at some deepfakes examples and their implications, students will discuss how societies should deal with deepfakes in the future.

This activity lets students try their hands at creating political ads, followed by discussing the characteristics and possible pitfalls of political advertising.

Controversial or even polarising topics are challenging to discuss but should not be ignored. Analyzing the topic in class without singling out students with minority opinions can help students learn to consider and evaluate different perspectives.

This lesson explores the basics of editorial processing and the role of news editors. Students learn about journalistic ethics and standards by analyzing real or mock-up articles before approving them for publication.

Fact-checking is an important skill to assess the news you get online. Fortunately, everybody can learn how to fact-check by asking critical questions about what you are reading or watching.

After diving into what a fact-checker does and how they check facts, students will become fact-checkers themselves by researching an online article.

Photos are the backbone of social media, but it can be difficult to verify where they were taken and if they correspond to the story they are posted with. Left unchecked, visual material can be used to spread fake news.

In this lesson, students will learn how to check the location of an image by looking at visual clues and using a search engine and map apps.

Fake news isn’t a new phenomenon, but it has changed a lot over time. These lessons will take a dive into the history of news and fake news up until the rise of the internet.

In this lesson, students will learn about news and fake news in ancient history and, more importantly, before the invention of the printing press. They will also analyze three different case studies from different historical periods.

The next lesson will look at fake news after the invention of the printing press.