Students at a Coquitlam middle school are learning about the dangers of online misinformation using tools to help spot the difference between fact and fiction.
Mason Foulkes, a grade 6/7 teacher at Maple Creek Middle School, says children are inundated daily with online misinformation and disinformation.
“All of your information now is coming from social media feeds. Unverified sources. Misinformation spreads like wildfire. It’s the new way we need to prepare our kids for the future.”
Foulkes’s lesson plan takes a non-traditional approach to teaching.
Instead of the students simply completing a worksheet, they’re exploring a new world in the popular video game Minecraft.
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