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Starter:
Starter:
"A truth that's told with bad intent
"A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent."
Beats all the lies you can invent."
(William Blake)
What do you think Blake meant? Can you link this to the question: How is our understanding of the world influenced by the way knowledge is communicated?
Objective: explore the role of spin on how knowledge is communicated
Objective: explore the role of spin on how knowledge is communicated
Outcomes:
Outcomes:
How accurately do you use social media to represent yourself? Be honest!
Overall, do you think social media gives us -
The truth about other people?
A truth about other people?
False information about other people?
A different truth about someone based on the social media platform they use?
Answer this question by positioning yourself in a line, with one side of the class representing truth, and the other side representing misleading
Does the way social media represents information or the way you represent yourself on social media match either of these definitions?
Spin (verb)
to tell a story, either to deceive someone or for entertainment or profit:
He spun some tale about needing to take time off work because his mother was ill.
They spun us a story about being in desperate need of money.
Spin (noun)
a way of describing an idea or situation that makes it seem better than it really is, especially in politics or business:
They have attempted to put a positive spin on the situation.
This report puts a positive spin on the issue.Spin (verb)
to tell a story, either to deceive someone or for entertainment or profit:
He spun some tale about needing to take time off work because his mother was ill.
They spun us a story about being in desperate need of money.
2. Linking to the AOKs…
In pairs, choose an AOK.
Discuss how our understanding of it can be affected by different ways of representing and communicating ideas.
Possible ideas you might consider - using synonyms, visual representations, selecting evidence carefully (‘cherry-picking’), technical language, social media, etc.
Present your ideas on an A3 sheet of paper. Make them as visual as possible (use limited text). Leave space for additional ideas and thoughts.
Follow the link to the RLS for your AOK. On your display, add:
A brief outline of your RLS and how it links to your AOK.
What this tells us about how our understanding can shift according to how ideas and knowledge is communicated.
The arts - This RLS shows how the arts can be used to represent something in a completely different way, challenging our understanding. In this case, the Mexican artist Fabián Cháirez, painting the revolutionary Zapata in high heels and a pink sombrero...
History - This RLS shows how social media can be both helpful and harmful in the pursuit of history - and in both cases, have a profound effect on the way we understand aspects of the past. It gives the opinions of four different historians on the matter.
The human sciences - This RLS shows us how the amount of information communicated can ‘drown’ out different (more truthful) ideas, and allow views to dominate the Internet. This is called ‘firehosing’. The RLS mentions anti-vaxxers and political leaders - broadly, the human sciences.
Mathematics - This RLS shows that mathematical terms (in this case, ‘zero’) allow us to understand completely new concepts. Before we had a term for zero, “humans didn’t understand the number zero. It’s not innate in us. We had to invent it”
The natural sciences - This RLS shows us that ways of representing ideas in natural sciences can be completely removed from their reality (in this case, the nature of atoms). Representing or simplifying them in this way shifts how we conceive of elements of the natural world.
Ideas swap: Walk around the class, and discuss what the other groups have thought about and produced. Choose another display to explain to the rest of the class. Make sure you are clear about:
Their AOK
General ideas about how knowledge can be spun or represented within their AOK
Their real-life situation, and how it links to their AOK
What the RLS shows about how our understanding of the world can be affected by the way knowledge is represented
Which AOK do you think is most vulnerable to ‘spin’? Why?
Write your answer on a Post-It note, and add to the AOK poster of your choice
PLENARY: is this the ultimate in spin?
PLENARY: is this the ultimate in spin?
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