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• 1 2020-08-27T15:50:55-07:00 Integrating Information Literacy 24 plain 1015791 2020-09-04T10:47:09-07:00 A 2018 Pew survey of us adults revealed that 43% of us get our news from Facebook, and another 21% from YouTube. Deep fakes are now a part of our political landscape, fooling people into believing things that simply aren’t true. Teens in Macedonia get paid to post lies about hot button issues on social media, and you can buy 13k likes on Instagram for as little as 10 Euro according to a 2019 NATO study. Many of us are unsure how to interpret data visualizations, or understand how the peer review process privileges certain types of authority over others.
  
  What do all of these things have in common? They’re facets of information literacy, and they affect all manner of life – personal and professional.

  Learn More about Information Literacy:

  • ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education
  • Information Literacy in the Disciplines
  • Metaliteracy aligned with ACRL Frames
    • Developed out of Information Literacy, Metaliteracy is a way to frame information literacy within pedagogy.
   

  Metaliteracy promotes critical thinking and collaboration in a digital age, providing a comprehensive framework to effectively participate in social media and online communities. It is a unified construct that supports the acquisition, production, and sharing of knowledge in collaborative online communities. Metaliteracy challenges traditional skills-based approaches to information literacy by recognizing related literacy types and incorporating emerging technologies. Standard definitions of information literacy are insufficient for the revolutionary social technologies currently prevalent online. – Jacobson and Mackey, 2011

  
  To learn more, check out Metaliteracy.org
  
  
  
  
  

  Curated Course Structures and Components

  • Full Courses & Syllabi
    • Check Please Starter Course on Misinformation - embed a module into your course
    • Calling Bullshit – University of Washington course, data focus
    • Civic and Online Reasoning
  • Assignments & Lesson Plans
    • ACRL Framework Toolkit
    • Metaliteracy in Practice – assignments and exercises
    • Teaching Tolerance Lesson Plans – filtered for 9-12, Digital literacy
  •  Other course materials
    • Fake News Guide
    • 2019 Novel Corona Virus Guide
    • Information Literacy Skills in the Workplace – Oklahoma State University; premade Canvas module
  • Partners in Information Literacy
    • WU Libraries Instruction Page. Work with a subject librarian at WU Libraries to integrate information literacy into your course.

  Curated Relevant Content

  Read

  • Weapons of Math Destruction – Common Reader book 2020
  • Student's Civic and Online Reasoning National Report
  • Project Information Literacy, check out their report on how students engage with the news
  • Infodemic Blog from Michael Caulfield

  Listen

  • Teaching Tolerance The Mind Online Podcast - Digital and Information Literacy - Episode One: The Digital Literacy Universe
  • Teaching in Higher Ed – Yes Digital Literacy, But Which One; Mike Caulfield is the guest discussing digital information literacy

  Watch

  • How biased are our algorithms?
  • What do we with big data?
  • How statistics can be misleading
  • What it means to be racially literate?

  Experience

  • Test your ability to spot fake news in your social media feed with
    • Newlist.org
    • FakeOut
    • Factitious
    • Checkology
  • Sign up for The Sift, a newsletter from the News Literacy Project. They often have great tips, lesson plans, and activities to share.