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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Young Reporter India

A media education programme for school students in India launched by Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ News in partnership with Internews and in collaboration with DataLEADS

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Young Reporter India is a media education project adapted for regional relevance, from the successful UK scheme. So far 50 trainers have reached 8000 students in 120 schools across India. India is a particularly challenging market for disinformation. Sharing misleading content on messaging apps is widespread.

We have created a series of workshops and presentations, of varying lengths, along with videos, and delivery notes to help you deliver programmes to students, to help young people meet these challenges.

The programme is aimed at students from grades 9-12, but suitable for older students, up to 18 years old. They can be delivered by teachers or trainers.

These workshops and films will help your students think critically about the information and news they receive on their social media feeds. They will be encouraged to think twice before sharing potentially misleading content, and be given tools to help them verify images and videos.

Our aim is to build a community of students, schools and teachers who will be able to sift facts from the fake and understand online information better.

About Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Young Reporter India

Workshops

We have a selection of videos of various lengths that can easily be fitted into your teaching timetable – from 20 minutes to 2 hours.  The choice is yours. You can find the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s child protection guidelines for delivery below.

For Teachers and Trainers

Here is a short introduction to Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Young Reporter India.

Workshops

We have created 6 short and simple 20-30 minute workshops that take students through the basics of recognising and verifying misleading information.

They will understand the potential harms, and learn to think critically about the information they see in their feeds.  Critically it will help to encourage them to pause before sharing – playing their role in preventing the sharing of fake news.

For trainers who are already familiar with the programme and who will only deliver one session to a group of students, we have two longer workshops (1 hour and 2 hours) which have already been delivered to 8000 students across India

Videos

Here are a selection of videos that can be used as either standalone resources or to support the workshops. They will help young people understand how to challenge fake news, and to think critically.

Assembly topics and slides

Interactive Game

  • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ iReporterΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ iReporter is a fun game that will put your students in the heart of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ news room and help them to check facts and sources.

Other resources

  • Online courses, toolkits and resources designed to help journalists and the public build expertise and stay one step ahead of misinformation.
  • Checks dubious stories and identifies fake news
  • Charts the spread of Tweets and bots
  • Checks a Twitter account, it's followers and friends to see if they are bots
  • Checks images for inconsistencies that occur when a photo has been altered
  • Fact check results from the web
  • YouTube verification tool from Amnesty International
  • Online video clip search and verification
  • Assess the date & location through shadows.
  • Similar to above - assess the date & location through shadows.
  • Identify hills, skylines and mountain ranges
  • Similar to above - Identify hills, skylines and mountain ranges
  • Guide to verifying digital content for emergency coverage
  • Multi-engine reverse image search