Language Teacher Toolkit: Steve Smith's blog

 I'm sharing here a resource I just uploaded to frenchteacher.net. It's effectively a whole lesson on the important topic of telling fact from fiction in online social media posts. Facebook, X and YouTube are plagued with Russian bots and trolls, and students need to think about this, if they don't already. I got ChatGPT to do most of the work for this, after I gave it the relevant prompts. It came up with the very good idea of creating a task whereby students look at some hypothetical posts and use any clues to tell if they are genuine, or from bots. So do help yourself to this and feel free to translate it into another language or even use it in English. This would work really well as a Y13 A-level lesson, or for IB Diploma, Irish Leaving Certificate or similar. In England, it fits with the AQA sub-theme of cyber-society, even though the content does not relate specifically to France. In a case like this, I would be very happy to overlook the lack of a French connection, ...