📖Read

You and your partner will read four different sources on an incident involving the spread of false statistics.  These include a newspaper article, a survey, a journal article and tweets. Each pair will answer the question on their sheet . Be prepared to share your response with the class. 

Question 1:  According to these sources, who is responsible for the inaccurate information? Cite evidence.

Question 2: How did your understanding of the facts change as you read different accounts of this story in different media forms? 

Question 3: Who might benefit from this message and who might be harmed by it? 

Question 4: How might the false reporting of this statistic impact the primary concern to stop harassment on campus?

Question 5: How do you decide what is credible when you see a tweet, read a news story or study a research report? How did you decide whether these particular sources were credible?

💭What's in your bubble?

You will have two minutes to brainstorm all of the "bubbles" you exist in. Write down anything that might influence your personal bubble. These are the characteristics about your life that shape what you see online. You do not have to be specific (ex. "political views" instead of "Democrat" or "Republican").  You will then meet with three other people to see if your bubbles overlap at all.

A few examples to get you started: 

Demographic information 

Hunterdon Central

An activity/sport you participate in

An opinion or viewpoint

The people you spend time with