After giving workshops in July 2020 to seniors in Verdun, offering a methodology to verify the truthfulness of information in order to reduce the spread of disinformation in the context of COVID-19, Grandir Sans Frontières decided to continue these workshops, this time for a broader audience.
Thus, winter 2021 will mark the launch of a new series of workshops: Decode the News. These workshops will combine investigation games, debates and editing activities to confront disinformation.
The workshops will take place online on Tuesdays from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and Thursdays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., starting January 19, 2021.
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Workshop schedule
Workshop 1: Analysis of articles or “posts”
- Participants will research information on a defined topic
- We will offer a methodology to verify the source of information
- A discussion period among participants will be organized
Workshop 2: Image analysis
- The facilitator will show participants images, then they will be invited to determine whether each image is true or false
- A photo-editing exercise
- Inventing a title and caption to illustrate a given image
- Recording a voice-over to comment on a shared video
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