Learning Goals and Objectives
Learning Goal
To educate older adults on critical media literacy skills
Learning Objectives
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Learners will be able to identify misinformation/scams/conspiracy theories on a variety of platforms used in daily life.
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Learners will be able to analyze media in a variety of forms through identifying the author, purpose, and point of view, and evaluating the quality and credibility of the content.
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Learners will be able to describe common misinformation/scams/conspiracy traps and develop techniques to avoid them.
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Learners will be able to evaluate news and information sources and curate a list of credible and accurate information/news sources that they can readily access.
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Learners will be able to apply strategies for finding credible resources and distribute this information to peers, friends, and family members.
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Learners will be able to reflect on practices of sharing media and adapt their current use to include more credible and accurate sources.
For our learners, we would like to be transparent about the critical media literacy skills that we will cover in our course. When writing our learning objectives, we referred to Bloom’s taxonomy as a means of setting instructional goals and objectives. We created learning objectives to fit multiple parts of Bloom’s Taxonomy’s Cognitive Domain in order to ensure that different levels of learning are experienced through our course. Addressing different tiers in Bloom’s Taxonomy also allows for students with varying degrees of background knowledge to access our design.
References
Bloom's Taxonomy Cognitive Domain (2001). (n.d.). Information Technology University of Florida.Retrieved February 28, 2022, from https://citt.ufl.edu/resources/the-learning-process/designing-the-learning-experience/blooms-taxonomy/