Integrating Information Literacy
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
- Sign up for The Sift, a newsletter from the News Literacy Project. They often have great tips, lesson plans, and activities to share.