Information Literacy Today
Information literacy has always been important, "fake news" has always been around for thousands of years, but suddenly in that past 2 years these topics have become a part of daily conversation. It is more important than ever for educators and librarians to work together to with their students to help them recognize what is legitimate news. When I was in high school and I was learning about research and which publications to trust and not trust, we used the term 'not a legitimate source.' In the past years the term has now turned to "fake news." No matter anyone's political views, our students are being faced with the term "fake news" from many different areas throughout their lives.
We need to not just tell our students on how to recognize non-valid sources, but actually work
with sources and practice with them on how to view a news or journal source. This takes time, this task cannot be achieved in just one lesson. Infographs, like the one here, are great to have around for students to reference as they work. As information professionals, we have the duty to help our students sort through sources and help them understand if they are looking at a valid source or not. Communicating and collaborating with teachers is the first step to helping our students comprehend information presented to them in all areas of their life.
PCmag. (2018). Image retrieved from https://www.pcmag.com/news/359747/study-fake-news-spreads-faster-on-twitter-than-real-news
APUW. (2018). Image retrieved form http://www.apwu.org/news/deptdiv-news-article/fake-news
Monica,
ReplyDeleteI love your point that in order for librarians to reach their goals we have to reach out and collaborate with teachers! I couldn't agree with you more, because if we don't, we could very well be teaching one thing in the library and a totally different thing could be happening in the classroom. Teachers and librarians have to become a team as we tackle the issues of digital literacy.
Hi Monica,
ReplyDeleteI love your IFLA poster of "How to Spot Fake News." The podcast we listened to this week gave us six different things to watch out for when we are reading or watching news or consuming information, but this poster is really far more user friendly and especially importantly, kid friendly. I am going to print it and put it all over my school. Below is a link to the free, open-sourced pdf with the poster available in about a zillion different languages.
https://www.ifla.org/publications/node/11174
You are absolutely right, we need to not just tell our students about fake news, but actually work with them to teach them how to tell the difference.
Thank you for sharing,
Jeri
Forgot to cite my source for the podcast - sorry! Here it is:
DeleteGungor, Michael, and Michael McHargue. “Fake News & Media Literacy.” The
Liturgists, 7 Mar. 2017, www.theliturgists.com/podcast/2017/3/7/fake-news-
media-literacy.
Monica,
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you! Librarians have such a big responsibility with teaching students how to use sources. There is a lot of fake news and biased sources out and if students aren't taught which sources are considered "unreliable" (ahem - wikipedia) then they will continue to use them and forever have skewed sources
Hi Monica,
ReplyDeletePlease use black or blue font on your blog posts. Yellow is extremely difficult to read.
Thanks,
Dr. Green