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What does it mean to be informationally literate in a digital age?
What does it mean to be informationally literate in a digital age?
The Association of College & Research Libraries Framework recommends the following student dispositions:
Learners who are developing their information literate abilities...
develop and maintain an open mind when encountering varied and sometimes conflicting perspectives;
motivate themselves to find authoritative sources, recognizing that authority may be conferred or manifested in unexpected ways;
develop awareness of the importance of assessing content with a skeptical stance and with a self-awareness of their own biases and worldview;
question traditional notions of granting authority and recognize the value of diverse ideas and worldviews;
are conscious that maintaining these attitudes and actions requires frequent self-evaluation.
Resources for Fact Checking:
Resources for Fact Checking:
This news service looks at news from various perspectives to enable readers to get the complete picture.
Easy to use website that looks at the facts behind fake news stories. A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) is a media watch group that advocates for greater diversity in reporting. Provides in-depth analysis of news stories.
Hoaxes is a section of The Intersect, a blog from the Washington Post that looks at internet culture.
Tracks over 1000 news sources and identifies bias. Includes a list of fake news sources as well as satirical sources.
PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by politicians. Sponsored by staff from the Tampa Bay Times, an independent newspaper in Florida,
Snopes.com defines itself as "the definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation."
TEACHER RESOURCES
TEACHER RESOURCES
Report Executive Summary: Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning
Stanford University's History Education Group: "Reading Like a Historian" Downloadable Curriculum
TEDEd Resources
TEDEd Video & Lesson Plan: How to Choose Your News by Damon Brown
TEDEd Video & Lesson: How False News Can Spread by Noah Tavlin
PBS NewsHour Column
School Library Journal: "The Smell Test: Educators Can Counter Fake News with Information Literacy. Here's How."
New York Times
The New York Times Article & Lesson Plan: "Evaluating Sources in a 'Post-Truth' World: Ideas for Teaching and Learning About Fake News"
The New York Times: Skills Practice - Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion
Stony Brook University Digital Resource Center for News Literacy: Full News Literacy Coursepack for Spring 2017 (14 lessons)
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