Building Resilience to Misinformation: An Instructional Toolkit

This section includes a brief introductory module and four key modules Building Resilience to Misinformation: An Instructional Toolkit. The four key modules do not need to be explored in a sequential order. These modules were last updated in Summer 2024.

The modules are:

1. Introduction: Focuses on key terminology: recommended that this module be done first.
2. The (Dis)Information Landscape: Focuses on disinformation actors, opportunities to amplify & disseminate disinformation information, identifying false experts and disinformation actors, and explores disinformation techniques. This module seeks to develop students' understanding of how disinformation impacts the broader information landscape.
3. Identifying Misinformation: Reviewing the different modalities of (mis)information, this module explores how aspects of credibility, including the modality of information, intent, and sources of information all impact our responses to different information we encounter.
4. Interacting with Misinformation: In describing our internal systems (i.e., values, beliefs, behaviours, and attitudes) and seeking to help us understand how differing internal and external factors influence our worldviews, this module seeks to help us critically examine our responses to misinformation we encounter.
5. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Misinformation: Discusses recent technological advancements, including artificial intelligence (AI), generative AI, as well as the linkages between these technologies and the different modalities of information.