Alabama Social Studies SS24.CWI.2

SS24.CWI.2 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.CWI.2a

  Explain how to determine the reliability of news stories and their sources.

• SS24.CWI.2b

  Describe the use and misuse of different media platforms, including the use of social media and artificial intelligence (AI).

• SS24.CWI.2c

  Critique viewpoints presented in cable news commentary, editorials, political cartoons, and social media algorithms.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students compare coverage of one world event across television, print, international, online, and social media. They check authors, dates, evidence, and corrections before trusting a claim. They explain how commentary, cartoons, algorithms, and AI-made content can shape what people see.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can name a fact that two reports support and a framing choice that differs. They can trace a claim to its source and separate opinion from reporting. They question an unverified AI-made image and explain why a feed might repeat one viewpoint.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may treat a polished news segment or a popular post as proof that a claim is true. They may call every difference in coverage a lie or trust an AI-made image because it looks real. They may read commentary or a political cartoon as straight reporting.

04

How to Assess It

Give students two short accounts of the same world event, one from an international news site and one from a social post. Ask them to name one framing difference, one source check, and one reason a feed might show only one account.

1. 01

   Place printouts about one event from cable news, an international outlet, and public broadcasting side by side; students mark shared facts and loaded words.

2. 02

   Show a political cartoon and an editorial about the same event; ask whose view each favors and which details support that reading.

3. 03

   Hand out source cards with authors, dates, evidence links, and corrections; teams rank the sources by reliability and defend one ranking.

4. 04

   Show a mock social post with an AI-made disaster photo; students write two checks they would make before reposting it.

• SS24.CWI.1d

  Locate on a map the areas affected by events reported in national and international news stories.

• SS24.CWI.1a

  Compare and contrast how several sources cover the same events and explain how their varied perspectives influence audience perceptions about the events themsel...

• SS24.CWI.1

  Explain how cultural, geographic, political, and social points of view can influence media descriptions of current international events.