❓Essential Questions

1. How do some social media users promote an unrealistic sense of reality?

2. How online information is manipulated to make it look real?

3. What impact can social media have on our self- esteem?

⏳Learning Objectives

1: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to identify how some social media users promote an unrealistic sense of reality.

2: Students will be able to identify how online information is manipulated to make it look real.

3: Students will be able to identify the impact that social media can have on our self- esteem.

Learning Resources

Videos to watch:

• Social Media vs. Reality, don't believe the hype:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C3ZigI8-Z0

• What's Real Online? | Media Literacy Lesson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQZfNCd-iwI&t=437s

Readings :

• [ ] The complicated truth about social media and body image: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190311-how-social-media-affects-body-image
• [ ] Digital Distortion: How Filters are Changing the Way Girls See Themselves : https://www.bgca.org/news-stories/2021/September/digital-distortion-how-filters-are-changing-the-way-girls-see-themselves?gad=1&gclid=CjwKCAjws7WkBhBFEiwAIi1680PNXgZgsRtbSdCgGC6gS4rlRsQKMyscQgPF8o_upnwYRWS2oD0hgRoCjfUQAvD_BwE

Quiz

https://quizizz.com/embed/quiz/64b45a2a90b35b001ddd5e60

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