to fight against misinformation, college students become apprentice journalists

Grégory Lanevère, teacher-librarian, leads media education workshops with his students. Headphones on, pencil in hand, the CDI has turned into an editorial office. “The idea is that they build a report by confronting themselves with sources that they went to look for themselves”explains the professor.

Learn critical thinking

Based on a story and fake clues about the escape of two big cats from a zoo, the students will have to choose and disentangle the true from the false. They are based on a series of tweets, testimonials from firefighters, or people who were there. “The educational objective is to distinguish the true from the false. Some sources do not coincide. It is up to them to decide who they will trust and to be critical“, details Grégory Lanevère. Feeling the difficulty of the construction of information, verifying it and collecting it, leads middle school students to better understand the job of journalist.