Ready-to-use materials to develop critical online reading:
Tools for teaching critical online reading is a material package for teachers.
It includes:
- videos about teaching critical online reading
- learning materials to support adolescent readers’ critical reading skills
- a video guide for each learning material, and
- a booklet that summarizes the content of the videos.
The learning materials, designed for adolescent readers, can be used to practice evaluating the credibility of online texts.
Watch instructional videos on geomedia and practice critical reading of statistics and maps:
Geographic information (GIS) and geomedia learning materials for different levels of education is is an extensive geomedia material package.
The material package includes the following materials in English:
- Instruction cards guiding to download various Finnish open GIS data sets
- Instroduction videos for good map visualization
The materials can be used in basic education, upper secondary education or self-study.
Learn critical graph interpretation skills in a game environment:
MediaWatch is an award-winning learning game to teach critical graph reading for adolescents. Many adolescents seem to struggle with interpreting, particularly misleading graphs.
The game can be easily played by the Internet browser without any accounts. The first version of the game includes geographic issues, and the entire game can be played in less than half an hour. Before starting the game, select English as the language in the settings menu.