Open course
QYourself interactive open course:
Fight against disinformation like a journalist!
We have designed a course to provide you with the essential journalistic tools that will help your students navigate today’s complex and often misleading information landscape.
This online course will turn you, and ultimately your students, into “journalists for a day,” cultivating a keener eye for detecting and combating disinformation. This website provides all the information, exercises and educational resources you need to achieve your goal. The entire course is also available in a convenient PDF format, which you can share with your fellow teachers, colleagues, or friends.
Together, let’s combat disinformation through education.
Throughout this course:
- You will gain exclusive insight into the methods used by professional journalists to analyse information.
- You will master practical techniques for identifying credible sources and recognising sophisticated disinformation.
- You will discover effective strategies for teaching students to navigate the complexities of social media and digital content.
Course
QYourself open course: essential journalistic tools to identify disinformation
The QYourself course has a highly practical approach, and has been designed as such. If you would like to better understand the origin of the resources and techniques we use, you can consult the Manual, where you will find all the theoretical basis behind the course. This manual will not only help you understand the scientific foundations and educational strategies that inspire it, but is also designed as a practical tool that will accompany you both during the course and in the design of your own classroom interventions.
You are just a few steps away
from combating disinformation in the classroom.
The course is organised into four main sections.
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In the first section, you will learn journalistic techniques through practical resources. Think like a journalist and teach others to think like one! In five simple steps, you will develop the ability to identify hoaxes and teach your students to do the same. After a brief theoretical introduction, you will work with practical materials that can be applied to everyday classroom situations.
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In the second section, you can choose from four courses designed for different student profiles: older people, migrants, teenagers and adults. Each one is tailored to the characteristics and needs of these groups. They are available in both English and the language of the country responsible for their design. You are sure to find one that suits your students!
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The third block includes the digital training courses that our teachers have taken to create these contents and materials. Here you will discover how they have prepared themselves to design effective and accessible digital resources.
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Finally, in the fourth block, we offer a compilation of real examples of courses created for a wide range of students. A source of inspiration to apply what you have learned in your own educational context.
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Journalism theory applied to MIL, think like a journalist!
1. Learn how to identify and check sources of information
Who is telling us this? It is very important to understand what is being said, but even more important to know who is telling us. By following a few simple steps, we can catch the liars.
2. Elements of information
What are they trying to tell us? We will learn to ask the questions journalists ask to identify and understand what they are trying to tell us and how they are telling us. In a simple way, we will learn the 5W+1 that a journalist always asks.
3. Basic journalistic application to the analysis of an apparently informative message
Sender vs. source: who says it and who transmits it are not the same thing. It is very important to differentiate between the sender who shares the message and the original source who creates it, and above all, to learn how to verify both. This will be one of the keys to distinguishing hoaxes and identifying suspicious messages that are trying to slip into social media.
4. Learn to distinguish information from opinion
Think before you believe… and share. Learning to differentiate between information and opinion is crucial in the fight against disinformation. It allows us to develop critical thinking skills so that we can form our own judgements about events and think for ourselves.
5. Transferring and applying previous learning outcomes in a new learning situation
It’s time to learn how to apply journalistic thinking in our classrooms. We suggest bringing it into the classroom through active methodologies that promote critical thinking and put students at the centre of the learning process. Contrary to what many people think, we don’t need to teach a special journalism class to learn the critical skills necessary to distinguish disinformation. In this course, you will learn how we can apply our method both in monographic classes and in classes with very different themes. It is very easy to adapt to the needs of the classroom!
We also provide you with an editable table to guide you in creating the activity. Don’t forget that in our manual, in Annex 2, we give you the keys to focusing the activity on the guidelines set by the European Union to combat disinformation within the digital education framework.
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Ready to use prototype national teacher trainings
This is a course tailored to your needs as a teacher. In this section we will learn how to adapt what we have learned to the different realities of adult education. Below, we present several courses, each focused on a specific student profile. These courses have been designed to respond to the specific needs of diverse groups, offering practical tools and relevant content for the classroom.
Take a look at the options we offer — we’re sure you’ll find one that fits your educational context!
SENIOR POPULATION
Download: EN – ES – EU
MIGRANT POPULATION
Download: EN – DE
ADULT POPULATION
Download: EN
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Hands on: digital tools to create your own resources
The digital world is increasingly present in our classrooms, which is why we are offering a series of refresher courses in English that we designed for our teachers as part of the project. In these courses, we review the use of platforms such as Moodle, explore tools such as Canva to create materials that are more attractive, learn how to produce educational videos and use social media as a teaching resource. All this with the aim of enriching our teaching practices in digital environments.
How to use Moodle
Download: EN
Improving our teaching materials using Canva
Download: EN
Creating engaging videos
Download: EN
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Practical examples ready to use in your classes
As you will see, it is not necessary to teach a specific class on journalism to work on media literacy! With our approach, it is even possible to address the identification and combating of disinformation in an art history class. 😉
Materials for Seniors (Spanish):
- Materials for seniors 1-1
- Materials for seniors 1-2
- Materials for seniors 1-3
- Materials for seniors 2-1
- Materials for seniors 2-2
- Materials for seniors 2-3
- Materials for seniors 2-4
Materials for Adults (Italian and Greek):
Materials for Migrant population (German):
Materials for Teenagers (Polish):
And remember: after completing this course,
you won’t be alone!
We have created an online community to share experiences, discuss strategies and discover new opportunities to combat disinformation from the classroom. Through this forum, you can keep in touch with the project team and other teachers, resolve queries, exchange ideas and continue learning together.