Digital Verification and Combatting Misinformation Course
Organized by American Space Valencia and Learn to Check

Course Objectives:

This course aims to reflect on misinformation and provide practical tools for its verification in the educational field. Participants will learn how to identify and cross-check false information and incorporate activities and projects related to misinformation into the classroom.

🗓 Dates: June 25, 26, 27, and 30, July 1 and 2, 2025
🕔 Time: 17:00 – 19:30 (local time)
📍 Location: Online sessions (link will be provided later)
📝 Registration: https://ceice.gva.es/va/

Specific Objectives:

• Reflect on misinformation and its effects.
• Provide techniques and digital verification tools.
• Dive into the phenomenon of misinformation on social media and digital platforms.
• Learn how to verify various types of content, such as text, photographs, videos, AI-generated posts, and social media accounts.
• Explore pedagogical resources for media literacy in the classroom.

Course Content:

Session 1: Misinformation and its Consequences

• What misinformation is and how it affects us.
• The current phenomenon: who deceives us and why.
• Strategies and types of misinformation.

Session 2: Foundations of Digital Verification

• The process of digital verification.
• Techniques to cross-check information.
• Verifying images, videos, and AI-generated content.
• Analyzing social media accounts.

Session 3: Scientific Knowledge Against Fake News

• Tools to cross-check scientific information.
• Consequences of scientific misinformation.
• Misinformation in health and with data, graphs, and maps.

Session 4: Misinformation and Hate Speech

• Social misinformation and its effects.
• Malicious misinformation and its connection to hate speech.
• Pedagogical resources to combat hate and misinformation.

Session 5: Journalism and Media Literacy Against Misinformation

• How journalistic fact-checkers work.
• Educational tools for the classroom (primary level).

Session 6: Media Literacy Against Misinformation

• Pedagogical resources for secondary school and high school.
• Educational experiences in digital verification.
• Designing practical classroom activities.

Target Audience:
This course is aimed at educators from any field and level, particularly those interested in combating fake news in the classroom using digital verification tools.

Conditions:
Participants must be non-university educators in public and private schools in the Valencian Community. Admission will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis following these criteria:

1. Career/trainee civil servants.
2. Active interim civil servants.
3. Civil servants on the job pool.
4. Non-civil servants (teachers in private schools).
5. Other educators.

Remarks:
The online synchronous sessions will take place from 17:00 to 19:30 on June 25, 26, 27, and 30, and July 1 and 2, 2025.
A task will be required to cover the remaining 5 hours of the course.

This course is held in collaboration with American Space Valencia and Learn to Check. The link to the videoconferences will be provided later.