Algorithms and extremism - online safety PSHE lesson

Algorithms and extremism - online safety PSHE lesson

Author: EC Publishing
£3.00

Brand new lesson all about how video platform algorithms (such as YouTube and Tiktok) can lead us to viewing extreme ideas without us ever intending to. The lesson investigates what algorithms are, what algorithm complacency is, how we are allowing platforms to shape our views and interests and what this may mean for wider society. Students will examine case studies of students who stumbled upon extreme videos or radical movements and see how they arrived at this content from first watching innocent or benign videos aligning with their interests,

Brand new lesson all about how video platform algorithms (such as YouTube and Tiktok) can lead us to viewing extreme ideas without us ever intending to. The lesson investigates what algorithms are, what algorithm complacency is, how we are allowing platforms to shape our views and interests and what this may mean for wider society. Students will examine case studies of students who stumbled upon extreme videos or radical movements and see how they arrived at this content from first watching innocent or benign videos aligning with their interests,