At the end of our project we were given the opportunity to share our findings and work with others at Festival del Sol. We wanted to show our audience how to detect fake news articles by using our own. The readers would walk into our classroom and pick up as many articles that caught their attention and read them without knowing that they are fake. Eventually a student would approach them with a sheet of paper outlining the basic components of a fake news article and explain to them why the article is fake and why it is important to be able to recognize it.
Days before exhibition I was assigned the role as "coordinator" of the event along side four other peers. This role meant making sure everything would look presentable the day of exhibition and students were ready to provide our audience with the information they needed for the activities we had prepared. The person I communicated and made decisions with the most was Ana, the other coordinator in my class. Sometimes we would divide, check in with half the groups, and come back and report to each other the progress each group was making. Other times we would sit down together and look over documents and give feedback. If it weren't for her support, I wouldn't have been able to pull off playing that role.
While I walked around the classroom at different times throughout the day during exhibition I saw students having conversations about their articles or having discussions about what they had learned from the project with an audience member. The dialogue I saw seemed interesting and every student was invested in helping out whoever came through our classroom door.
If another student were to do a similar project to ours the only piece of advice I could give is to plan ahead. Not only will you relieve yourself of unnecessary stress but the execution and product of the project will come out looking more impressive and developed.
Days before exhibition I was assigned the role as "coordinator" of the event along side four other peers. This role meant making sure everything would look presentable the day of exhibition and students were ready to provide our audience with the information they needed for the activities we had prepared. The person I communicated and made decisions with the most was Ana, the other coordinator in my class. Sometimes we would divide, check in with half the groups, and come back and report to each other the progress each group was making. Other times we would sit down together and look over documents and give feedback. If it weren't for her support, I wouldn't have been able to pull off playing that role.
While I walked around the classroom at different times throughout the day during exhibition I saw students having conversations about their articles or having discussions about what they had learned from the project with an audience member. The dialogue I saw seemed interesting and every student was invested in helping out whoever came through our classroom door.
If another student were to do a similar project to ours the only piece of advice I could give is to plan ahead. Not only will you relieve yourself of unnecessary stress but the execution and product of the project will come out looking more impressive and developed.