In P6 we decided to learn more about ‘fake news’ for safer internet day 2021. We looked at the definition of fake news and the reasons why some internet sites choose to deliberately create and spread fake news. Fake news can have a lot of consequences on society if we do not learn to identify and disprove it.
As a follow up task p6 were shown a clip from the Harry Potter films of Rita Skeeter, a journalist for the Daily Prophet, interviewing Harry. She deliberately exaggerated and made up information in her article to cause controversy. We concluded that her articles could not always be trusted and that she would not be considered a reputable source due to her actions!
We then had a go at writing our own newspaper articles based on an incident that happened at Hogwarts. The Success Criteria asked the pupils to write an article that was accurate and did not contain any exaggeration or misinformation. Have a read at some of the examples below!
