{"id":206,"date":"2025-03-21T13:39:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/navigating-teacher\/chapter\/assessment-activity-fact-checking-video\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T18:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:21:08","slug":"assessment-activity-fact-checking-video","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/navigating-teacher\/chapter\/assessment-activity-fact-checking-video\/","title":{"raw":"Assessment Activity: Fact-Checking Video","rendered":"Assessment Activity: Fact-Checking Video"},"content":{"raw":"Tell students that they can do more than respond to things other people post: they can make their own fact-checks too. Besides helping anyone who might have seen a false claim, fact-checks \u201cpre-bunk\u201d the claim for people who haven\u2019t seen it and also make more people feel comfortable correcting misinformation when they see it.\r\n\r\nHave students watch the video in the student chapter Does Caffeine Cause Hair Loss?<\/a> and answer the questions:\r\n\r\nFrom ten seconds into the video:<\/em>\r\n\r\nWhy might you want to fact-check this story? (A lot of people drink coffee, and people worry about losing their hair!)\r\n\r\nHow would you fact-check this? (Remind students of the four steps covered earlier.)\r\n\r\nFrom the end of the video:<\/em>\r\n\r\nWhat steps did the fact-checker use? (Find the source, Check other sources and Verify the source.)\r\n\r\nThen ask: Which one worked best? Why? (Check other sources, because she was able to compare what sources she knew were reliable said on the topic.)\r\n\r\nHave students navigate to the student chapter Fact-Checking Video<\/a> and go through it with the class.\r\n\r\nExplain that they will find a claim that they are not sure is true and fact-check it using the four steps you reviewed in class. They will then make a fact-checking video using the Digital Story Maker that will show the claim, the steps they took to verify it, and their final verdict.\r\n\r\nIf students have not already completed the Digital Storytelling unit<\/a>, go through it with the class.\r\n\r\nIf students have the time and ability to make on-camera videos, send them to the website Alternativeto.net<\/a> for examples of video editing apps and programs they can explore.\r\n