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[School Librarians as Social Media Curators | By Joyce Valenza]
Today everyone produces, consumes and shares a huge amount of data. This information boom combined with technology evolution urges us to keep on building our digital literacy.
Literacy in digital times can build bridges across information gaps caused by geography distancing, no access to technology, and even cultural differences. Such divide creates a social dynamic where only a niche of our society can truly benefit from information access, and some others are marginalized for not having access to it: this is the information privilege.
Promoting information equity in order to reduce, or even end information privilege, is the moral basis for librarianship and should be the mission of every librarian. Therefore, to prepare Information Science undergraduate students to fight information inequity, the Information Science Undergrad School of University of Brasilia will offer a 30 hours extra-credit Course on Digital & Media Literacy.
LEARNING GOALS
LEARNING GOALS
By the end of the course on Digital & Media Literacy, as a real-time learning, students will be able to analyze and assess the fundamentals of information privilege, information equity, digital and media literacy to conceptualize advocacy statements. In addition, as the anytime learning component, students will be able to curate, create and analyze media artifacts and information resources based on the principles of digital and media literacy.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the end of the course students' will have developed and delivered 2 digital artifact pieces:
one to advocate for information equity;
one to share a curation of content to tell a story or engage with a particular information segment or audience.
SYLLABUS
SYLLABUS
MODULE I - ADVOCACY FOR INFORMATION EQUITY
MODULE I - ADVOCACY FOR INFORMATION EQUITY
The importance of Libraries in digital times
Information Equity & Information Privilege
The importance of Digital & Media Literacy to foster citizenship
MODULE II - KNOWLEDGE HARVEST
MODULE II - KNOWLEDGE HARVEST
Search tools & Search strategies
Evaluating Information
Copyrights, Open Access, Fair Use & Creative Commons
MODULE III - CONTENT CURATION
MODULE III - CONTENT CURATION
Critical inquiry
Lateral Reading & information verification
Curation Strategies
Curation Tools
Curations Situations
MODULE IV - CREATE TO LEARN
MODULE IV - CREATE TO LEARN
Create to Share
Create to Collaborate
Create to Express
METHODOLOGY
METHODOLOGY
This course lasts fifteen weekly classes (2 hours each), combining real-time [synchronous] and anytime [asynchronous] learning experiences, in a virtual learning environment.
The the real-time lessons will be held on ZOOM, and the anytime content will be available at a Google Classroom, where students will be able to work at their own pace and time, completing the coursework within pre-established deadlines. It will include:
video instruction;
course materials [online and/or offline];
assignments;
reflection and collaboration tasks.
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