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SO PERFECT:
ARE INFLUENCERS FOR REAL?

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​By students, for students lesson plan submitted by: 
TEAM GERMANY
​for the Thinking Otherwise project
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PLAN

Our target age range

11-16 years - whole school

We wanted to

​We wanted to stimulate pupils and make them sensitive to the power of influencers and celebrities. 
We wanted to challenge the perception of perfection!
Why do we aspire to be like internet influencers? Are we seeing them as they are in real life? 
The message that we all need to love ourselves, no matter what we look like, is more important than ever.

We chose to

Collect our ideas.
Design and conduct surveys in classes.
Look into the world behind the social media influencers.
Explore their strategies to gain followers.
Consider which untruths are seen daily on the net through influencers - what are influencers telling us?

Inspired by the results, we wrote a script and shot a video about it.
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ecide who would be filmed and who would film it, on the school video cameras. 
Edit and combine onto one short film (see our example).​

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DO

What do I need?

Video cameras 

How long does it take?

​We planned and completed the activity over the course of a school week. 
The filming and editing took 2 days.

How it works

Return to the classes to share the survey results and show the film.
Remind them of the survey questions.
Our survey questions: 
  • What's your idol?
  • Who do you admire?
  • Who do you want to be?

Explain how many influencers were mentioned and needed further research into the hidden world behind influencers.

Show film and present the results from the key questions we had asked across the school. 
Present facts from research about the influencers too.

Review

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How it ends

Ask key questions: Is it all real? What do these people look like without make up? Are they happier than us?
​Answer any questions, on your film, from audience.
During the final evaluation, the students realised: we are all the same, as good as the others, with or without make-up or money.
​Always ask your participants for feedback:
  • Did they understand the task?
  • What did they learn? 
  • What did they find easy or difficult, why?
  • What did the student leaders do well?
  • Where can the leaders improve?
  • How could the activity be made even better?
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The In Others' Shoes and Thinking Otherwise projects are 
co-ordinated by Global Education Derby, a specialist educational charity that works with educators to develop global citizenship.
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