The Social Dilemma Active Viewing Guide - Netflix - Social Media Literacy

Are your students naive about social media algorithms? This 22-page active viewing guide is designed to help them process the Netflix film "The Social Dilemma." Students are required to listen and watch actively, consider their own behavior, analyze the film maker's choices, and write about rhetorical impact. A teacher guide is provided, and all materials are provided in both PDF and Google Slides.

This viewing guide is now embedded in a 12-lesson media literacy unit, Detect & Dismiss: How to Spot Fake News.

Suggestions for Use

⭐️Have students preview the film by looking over the viewing guide before they watch.

⭐️Have students complete the guide while they watch.

⭐️Have students complete the guide after they watch.

⭐️Leave activity for a sub.

⭐️Pull this lesson on a day when you're sick but you drag yourself to school anyway.

⭐️Use the activity as part of a unit on media literacy.

Stellar Reviews

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️We watched the movie THEN went back and completed the guide together. This guide is so helpful in breaking down the movie and the ideas it presents. My students are so caught up in the discussion of this movie and the guide and I am loving the results! Dana S.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This was a very well designed and structured viewing guide. It kept my students engaged and opened up some great opportunities for class discussion! Melissa S.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️I have used this in multiple classes and it worked with everyone. This was one activity that engaged them all, including the quiet class! I found this resource to be well-balanced and very relevant to students' lives. H.W.