MEDIA INVESTIGATORS

• Date of submission: 19 January 2024
• School name: SMK SANZAC
• Country: Malaysia
• Team Leader: Camilia Melvessa

Project Summary

Our team has come up with three activities during this project. We held a Ted Talk, a card game that students can play during relief class and a program called ‘Sip n Spill’.

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• Ted Talk (Hashtag life: Navigating Social Media’s Neighborhood)

We talked about what social media is, how it affects us as a society, what the media should and shouldn’t do.

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• Card Game (Media Detectives)

A game how people can differentiate on fake news and the right ones. There are 2 main roles in the game, 1 player will be the fake news spreader, and 1 player will spread the right news. the remaining 3 players will have to choose which is the fake news spreader .

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• Sip N Spill

A chill programme where students can volunteer to talk about experiences about using the media, after that they get a free boba drink

Project Details

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- We have impacted form 1 to form 4 students. (382 pupils) on our Ted Talk

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- For our sip and spill programme, 4 students have volunteered to talk about their experiences in using social media.

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- The activities was held on a Thursday morning from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (4th January 2024)

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- 15 people have participated in our card game (media detectives).

PARTICIPANTS DURING THE TED TALK

Team A in the Card Game

First volunteer in our Sip n Spill programme

Photos and/or videos

Playing the Card game

During the ted talk

Card Game template

• https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XcHXzjca8ORywtfMLQODYmlmr-pTslZ9

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Challenges Faced

We have faced a few challenges during the making and during we held the project:

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• No one was able to buy the items we needed for the project because our parents didn’t allowed us to do so. To overcome the challenges we have discussed kindly with our parents to allow us to go out.

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• Other than that, we had an unresponsive audience during our card game. We overcome this problem by fiding our closest friends to participate in our game.

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• Plus we lacked cooperation in the team, to overcome this we tried to organize our plan throughly and made sure all of us played a good role in the project .

Outcomes Achieved

1. Card Game (Media Detectives)

- A new game that students can play in their free time, participants enjoyed the game and gained knowledge about fake news on social media.

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2. Ted Talk (Hashtag life: Navigating Social Media’s Neighborhood)

- Most students enjoyed the Ted Talk.

- A lot of students volunteered for the QnA.

- They enjoyed learning something new while having fun.

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2. Sip n Spill

- The participants willingly to share their exciting experience while using the internet. At the same time, we learned from their mistakes in their story.

Feedback

Here’s the feedback we got from the participants:

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Rauf

“it was really interesting, fun and informative”

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Syazana and Farhana

“It was eye catching, We loved how we learned more about social media and other students experience using it”

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Allief

“The ted talk speaker was very friendly, she made the activity more interesting. The sip n spill programme was fun too! Other than getting to learn about other students experiences, we get delicious prizes too! Lastly the Card game was so much fun and i got to learn more about how the media affects us”

Expense/Financial Report

we used a total of RM500

Lessons Learned

During making this project we learned:

• Overall we felt happy whilst making the project, other than the complications. Everything went well.
• We think we could’ve done better on planning ahead and being more cooperative with each other. Indeed we gained knowledge about what the media role is and how it influences citizens.
• Other than that, we get to know other students experience on using the media. We used to think lightly about the media’s role in our lives, we didn’t thought much about it. But now, we know how dangerous the media can be at the same time being benifitial to our society.

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Conclusion

We would like to express our deepest gradtitude towards the organisers for giving us a chance to spread awareness about this topic. We are extremely greatful for having a chance to join this beneficial competition, we learned a lot of things and had great memories. The few things that we have learned are:

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The media easily influences us in our daily lives.

We should always be mindful of what we say online.

Instead of spreading negativity, we should spread more positive things that are helpful for the user .

We should stop hating on people who share their daily routines, activities, etc.

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