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Civic Online Reasoning. Information Literacy (IL) Games & Activities - Biology Research Guide - Research Guides at Humboldt State University.

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Media Literacy Week 2019. Dear Class of 2019, Congratulations!

Media Literacy Week 2019

You have completed the first leg of your life's journey. Some of you are off to colleges and universities, some of you are joining the military, others of you may be starting vocations or getting jobs and some of you may be taking some time to figure out what is next. No matter where you are going, you will be learning and gaining new knowledge as part of your academic, professional and personal lives. The past twelve-ish years have provided you with an educational foundation that no one can take away from you.

During these years, you have walked into a school building with a library just down the hall and with a librarian who has been dedicated to helping you learn and succeed. I hope that during those years you have learned that libraries are welcoming places, where you can go to work, read, use computers, do research, and a quiet place to escape when life get noisy. Media Bias Chart: Version 4.0 - ad fontes media. Innovator of Month: Gydus leads student media literacy effort – Shelton Herald. Finding Credible News. National Association for Media Literacy Education.

The Basic Definition Media literacy is the ability to ACCESS, ANALYZE, EVALUATE, CREATE, and ACT using all forms of communication.

National Association for Media Literacy Education

Lessons for Analyzing Contemporary Propaganda - K-12 Technology - Big Deal Media. Danah boyd: How Critical Thinking and Media Literacy Efforts Are ‘Backfiring’ Today. Speaking of Digital Literacy… Teaching Kids (and Adults) about Clickbait - TechNotes Blog - TCEA. As if email spam wasn’t bad enough, we now have website spam in the form of clickbait.

Teaching Kids (and Adults) about Clickbait - TechNotes Blog - TCEA

Learn some ways to identify and then ignore this big time waster. I noticed something happening on my Facebook the other day. Suddenly, I was getting a lot of “sponsored stories” (ie. ads) with salacious headlines. Things like “Stop eating chicken breasts immediately!” And “You won’t believe what this famous star has become.” What Is Clickbait? According to Wikipedia, clickbait is a term for “web content that is aimed at generating online advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines or eye-catching thumbnail pictures to attract click-throughs and to encourage forwarding of the material over online social networks.”

There are several parts of that definition that jumped out at me. Why Clickbait Is So Dangerous I think all of us can agree that clickbait is something that we wish didn’t exist. What You Can Do The headline is too good to be true. Home.

News Literacy

EdWebet74. Will we now take information literacy skills seriously? I keep having to bite my tongue a lot late from muttering, "People are idiots.

Will we now take information literacy skills seriously?

" I am sure many are doing the same when they look at me. But there you are. The recent brouhaha over the term "alternate facts" makes it seem like everything people have been reading in the media and online has been true up until Trump was elected president. Librarians have always known better. We've been advocating for information literacy for at least 20 years - tha all people need to be critical users of information and ideas. Any many folks like Mike Eisenberg and Kathy Shrock were way ahead of me in this advocacy. If you'd prefer, read the same message from someone a lot smarter and younger than I am (Jennifer LaGarde) that was just published yesterday. Survival Skills for the Information Jungle: Information Problem-Solving Activities Are More Important Than Ever Creative Classroom August 2001 - Doug Johnson Kathy Schrock has a wonderful, comprehensive webpage on website evaluation at <

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.

Truth, truthiness, triangulation: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world

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. True or Not. Do Educators Need Media Literacy as Much as Students Do? Media Literacy. A Position Statement of National Council for the Social Studies© 2009 National Council for the Social Studies.

Media Literacy

All rights reserved This position statement was prepared by a task force of the Technology Community of National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), and was approved by the NCSS Board of Directors in February 2009. “In the twenty-first century, participatory media education and civic education are inextricable” (Rheingold, 2008, p. 103) This position statement focuses on the critical role of media literacy in the social studies curriculum. The statement addresses the following questions. Rationale The 21st century world is media saturated, technologically dependent, and globally connected. The ubiquitous and mobile nature of information and communication technologies has resulted in a world far different from that of those of us whose childhood was once surrounded by large box televisions, rotary dial telephones, and transistor radios. Purpose/Definition References Giroux, H.