A primer on digital media literacyGenerating principles for each deceptive day, January 20, 2017—April 29, 2017Make sure to click through each hardtruth for ever more honesty, useful resources, and further connectionsYou can learn more about Fake News Poetry Workshops here(a great way to make use of the primer towards Radical Media Literacy!)
A recent Stanford Graduate School of Education study found that most students, middle school through college, struggled to distinguish between credible and unreliable news articles. Many adults have the same challenge. Can you spot fake news? Do you know how to help others differentiate between truth and fiction? Join us to learn how you can be a better ambassador for information literacy.Talk of fake news and the need for critical thinking skills have been in heavy rotation in the media in recent months, with new calls for the public to acquire appropriate research and evaluation skills and become more information savvy. However, none of this is new for librarians and information professionals, particularly for those who teach information literacy classes! With this renewed interest, librarians have brand new opportunities to impart these skills to patrons.