The videos are recommended to be used as educational materials when teaching Critical Thinking and Media Lieracy. If implemented as part of a flipped-classroom design, videos should be viewed by students before the classroom activities.
After viewing it, students are recommended to complete pre-tests, so teachers will be able to plan classroom activities with the primary goal to address difficult concepts as revealed by the students’ answers.
Teachers are invited to recreate the narrations in their native language (e.g., by reading the subtitles).
Introduction: Media Literacy through Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking in Relation to Entertainment-Content
No to distorted facts! Data-based decision making
A constructive formulation of critical assessment
Critical Thinking and the Use of Internet
Personality and Behavioural Differences
How to deal with the fake news
Evaluating the reliability and validity of evidence presented in media
Propaganda in media. Playing with Emotions.
Advertising and Critical Thinking
How not to be manipulated by the media
Developing active learning and critical reading skills
Active Citizenship Through Social Networks
Analyzing Arguments and Recognizing Inferences and Fallacies in Media
Distinguishing facts from opinions
Ethics of information
Digital skills, cultural cooperation, creativity and entrepreneurship
Critical selection of information
Wonder, Doubt, Decide. A possible way through the labyrinth of information society