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Disinformation is an important topic in today’s world affecting not only adults, but also children and young people. In the FAKE kNOw MORE project, we focus on developing young people’s self-awareness as a basis for building resilience to disinformation. We show how emotions and personal experiences affect the reception of information reaching us. We run the project internationally, and our materials are also available in partner countries: Spain, Romania and the Czech Republic.

What do we offer in the project?

The teaching bases of our project are:

  • The publication ‘Understand Emotions. Become Resilient to Disinformation’ containing lesson plans and introductory materials for educators. They show the various psychological mechanisms that are triggered in us when we come into contact with false information, as well as tips for protecting ourselves from it. The focal point of each scenario is self-reflection – looking at yourself and your reactions. 
  • The educational game ‘Octogram’, which shows in a simple yet attractive way the mechanisms that govern social media and allows, through gamification, to engage children and young people in a conversation about their presence on social media. 
  • Video materials to support conducting activities with young people.

 

The materials are created for children and youth aged 10-15 attending day-support centers, community centers, youth sociotherapy centers, as well as schools and other educational institutions.

What will you learn from the project?

  • how to increase young people’s self-awareness in the area of emotions – how to recognise them, talk about them and how they affect our reactions
  • how to develop young people’s critical thinking skills
  • how to use the social media in an aware and attentive way
  • how emotions affect susceptibility to disinformation
  • what cognitive biases and fast and slow thinking are
  • how social media affects well-being and mindfulness
  • how social media algorithms work

Educational materials

’Understand Emotions. Become Resilient to Disinformation’ is a publication focusing on developing young people’s self-awareness as a basis for building resilience to disinformation. In it, we show how emotions and personal experiences affect the reception of information reaching us, and thus our susceptibility to false information.

In the publication, you will find activity scenarios for young people aged 10-12 and 13-15 participating in activities in smaller or larger groups, and sometimes individually. Each of them contains presentations and worksheets that help conduct activities. In addition, each section begins with a theoretical introduction, providing the educator with basic information on the area covered.

Understand Emotions. Become Resilient to Disinformation

 

You can download the publication in English, Polish, Czech, Spanish and Romanian below.

The educational game ‘Octogram’ is a card game (that you can print yourself) with a fictional storyline, in which a large part of the situations presented can be applied to everyday life. It simulates social media and its algorithms, as well as filter and information bubbles. The goal, in addition to having fun playing the game, is to provide an introduction to the discussion about how social media works and how to navigate it.

The educational game ‘Octogram’

 

You can download the game in English, Polish, Czech, Spanish and Romanian below.

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You may also like: How to play the educational game ‘Octogram’ – video (English, Spanish, Czech and Romanian subtitles available)

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The project is led by the School with Class Foundation in collaboration with the Demagog Association (Poland), Fakescape (Czech Republic), Smilemundo (Spain) and Adfaber (Romania) with the support of EMIF managed by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.