Q5: Fake or Real News Digital Breakout
Note: If you do not know what a 21t4s Digital Breakout Activity is, open the content box on the right above the Printer icon, read and watch the video for hints.
Check with your teacher about working with a partner or with others as a team.
Solve this Digital Breakout Challenge Activity by locating the five keys. Remember to look the page over first, then launch your timer and jot down the time you took to solve this.
Once you unlock it, you might want to take a screenshot of the Award for your portfolio, or check with your teacher.
Please be sure to tell us what you think of this Breakout Activity so that we can meet your needs. Teachers and Students use this link for a very short survey about this breakout.
Competencies & Standards
MITECS Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students, and
1. Empowered Learner
d. Understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies, are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies
2. Digital Citizen
a. Cultivate and manage their digital identity and reputation and are aware of the permanence of their actions in the digital world
b. Engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices
d. Demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property
3. Knowledge Constructor
a. Plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits
b. Evaluate the accuracy, perspective, credibility and relevance of information, media, data or other resources
Websites and Documents
Websites
- ABC News
- Ask a Question Fact Check
- CNN
- Factcheck
- FakeOut
- Fox News
- Huffington Post
- Politifact
- Real Fake News: Exploring Actual Examples of Newspaper Bias
- Real or Photoshop
- Spot the Troll
- Snopes
- Young Voters Guide to Social Media and the News
Videos from Outside Sources
- Ethical Journalism Network "The 5 Core Values of Journalism" YouTube
- How False News Can Spread YouTube
- TedTalk "How we can Protect Truth in the Age of Misinformation" Video
21t4s Videos
21t4s Documents & Quizzes
21t4s Digital Breakout Challenge
What is a Digital Breakout?
A Digital Breakout may also be called a Digital Escape Room.
This is a web-based, game-like activity where students use clues to unlock a series of puzzles or activities to solve a challenge (or to escape a digital room).
Students frequently work together, (conference, or chat) as they work to locate and solve clues.
For additional help to solve a breakout view this short video (3:44).