Making University Students Aware of the Sender of Internet News: Lesson Design and its Evaluation

Abstract

Despite the efforts to promote awareness of the senders of information in primary and secondary schools, university students, who should have been educated on the matter, do not appear to care about the senders of internet news. This study considered that many university students have little opportunity to know the sender of internet news and that their idea of it is vague. Therefore, it designed a lesson that could enhance this awareness. The composition of senders of internet news reflects that of information senders of other media. By considering this similar relationship, the current design encourages students to remember past learning experiences and make an analogy and generate a solution that ought to make them aware of the sender when reading internet news. As a result of practicing the designed lesson at two universities, it was confirmed that the assumptions above are supported. The lesson is designed in a way that students are made aware of the sender of internet news.