Understanding how the Media can be misleading and looking at how Social Media does not always reflect reality.
We played a Social Media play dough game. One person made a model out of play dough and covered it with a cloth so that the rest of the class couldn’t see. The class formed a line and the person who made the model, whispered to the next person, what it was. The message then travelled up the line until it reached the last person, who also made a model of what they heard. The second model was also covered. Both models were shown to the class. The first word was ‘handbag’ and it had become ‘ham in a bag’. The second time we tried it, the model was ‘teddy bear’ and it became ‘water’. The aim was to illustrate how messages can be misinterpreted or manipulated when passed through the prism of Social Media. We talked about how things that we read on Social Media cannot always be trusted.
