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In this lesson, students will source data from a text and use it to create an infographic.

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PLEASE NOTE!

New media consists of 6 lessons, but only "New media 1: What is new media?" and New media 6: The future" are compulsory. The 4 production lessons, in which students create their own new media, are fun and informative, but not all of them have to be done.

Statistics are everywhere in the media and give consumers an impression of credibility. They can be used to inform people, but also to mislead them.

In this lesson, students learn what to pay attention to when dealing with statistics in the media. After, they use the same set of data to write three different, sometimes opposing, article headlines.

After preparing for this exercise by having students request their social media data, this lesson plan helps them analyze the information collected by social media platforms and discuss the relevant privacy implications.