Libraries Respond: Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers. "Here's How You Can Help Fight Family Separation at the Border" by Dahlia Lithwick and Margo Schlanger.
Slate.com, June 15, 2018 "Immigrant Students Worry as Librarian Lends Support" by Deah Hester. School Library Journal, March 1, 2017. "Best Kids Books About Immigrations and Refugees" by Jen Gann. New York Magazine, February 8, 2017. "How sanctuary cities work, and how Trump's executive order might affect them," by Darla Cameron. Interactive presentations to engage your audience. Home - Post-Election 2016 Recap & Resources - Library Guides at Penn State University. After two years of campaigning, debates, and media coverage, Donald Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States.
Not only was this a tight race, but it brought out the best and worst in people. Over 130 million Americans voted in this election (some estimate 138 million, depending on the day) and for swing states like Pennsylvania, we saw an increase in voter turnout. Now, as we regroup and prepare for Trump to take office on Friday, January 20th, 2017, we can take this time to reflect on the election. President Barron has asked our Penn State Community to "reflect upon who we are as Penn Staters" (email, 11/10/16).
We as a library are here to help you process and work together to locate information on the election, our democratic process, and resources in our community. We are all processing this election in different ways. How do I use this guide? This guide has tried to capture the election and how America responded after November 8th. The News Literacy Project. Truth, truthiness, triangulation: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world. We were guaranteed a free press, We were not guaranteed a neutral or a true press.
We can celebrate the journalistic freedom to publish without interference from the state. We can also celebrate our freedom to share multiple stories through multiple lenses. But it has always been up to the reader or viewer to make the reliability and credibility decisions. It is up to the reader or viewer to negotiate truth. News literacy is complicated.
Professional journalists themselves face new practical and ethical challenges relating to anonymity, privacy and safety, as well as reliability in their attempts to verify sources of breaking news from social media and user-generated content in all media formats. Even news that is vetted by editors and publishers sometimes emerges from that process a bit processed, perhaps leaning in a particular direction. And word choice itself is connected to truth. On news literacy Our kids need new types of filters. S disciplines. What’s going on? Fake news. Key People. Jim Teicher, CEO and Executive Director Jim Teicher is Cofounder and CEO of CyberSmart!
Education, a digital learning company and international leader in fostering digital literacy skills. In 2007 Jim founded CyberSmart! Africa—partnering with The Millennium Villages Project, a joint initiative of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Millennium Promise and the United Nations Development Programme—to provide a sustainable, scalable solution to 21st century learning. Previously, Jim was cofounder and CEO of Stockalert, Inc., the award-winning financial information services company.
Jim currently serves on the advisory board of the United States Congressional Internet Caucus, is a recent member of the consumer advisory board of McAfee Corporation, is a co-founder of The National Cyber Security Alliance, and is a member of the mEducation Alliance, among other affiliations. Mala Bawer, Executive Director Mala Bawer is cofounder and Executive Director of CyberSmart! S.O.S. for Information Literacy.