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Portfolio - Hive Kansas City The Hive KC Portfolio shows the range of projects we’ve funded with innovation funds from the Gigabit Fund and the Hive Drive Fund, along with a pipeline of active proposals we are actively engaging for support with local funders of the Hive KC Digital Drive Fund. These grantees are some of Hive KC’s most active and committed contributors. Their projects reflect exemplar collaborations within our community, showcasing connected learning and next generation Ed Tech experiences and digital literacy programs and pilots. Hive KC supports a competitive grant making process aimed at providing a platform for Hive practitioners to explore the innovative solutions and imaginative next-generation approaches to learning that lie at the heart of Hive’s goals to create impact and learning outcomes in Kansas City and beyond. Gigabit Fund projects

Home - Information Literacy in the Core Workshop for Faculty - LibGuides at Loyola Marymount University Designing Information Literacy Assignments Tuesday, August 11 at 9:00am to 12:30pm, Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) Based on a variety of examples of sequencing, scaffolding, and integrating information literacy assignments into different classes (First-Year Seminars to upper-level flagged classes), participants will have the opportunity to develop their own information literacy assignments for their classes in line with core requirements and receive feedback and suggestions from colleagues and librarians.

Information Literacy Access and Evaluate Information Access information efficiently (time) and effectively (sources)Evaluate information critically and competentlyUse and Manage InformationUse information accurately and creatively for the issue or problem at handManage the flow of information from a wide variety of sourcesApply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of information Additional resources: 1. ALA | Information Literacy AASL provides leadership for the development of dynamic, student-centered school library media programs.

RAIL: Recipes for Advancing Information Literacy Designing large-format posters by Baynard Bailey According to the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (Mayer et al.), learning is an active process of filtering, selecting, organizing, and integrating different channels of information (text, images, audio, etc.) based upon prior knowledge. In this light, the process of creating a poster as a vehicle to convey learned concepts and research findings can become an good pedagogical practice. Students use graphic design principles to design large-format posters with the goal of presenting their core ideas to their peers and the academic community as a cohesive narrative. Feedback from the poster presentation is then incorporated into the final version of their term papers.

7 resources for much-needed information literacy skills Fake information is everywhere online. After all, everyone has a Facebook friend who elicits eye rolls when he or she shares a sensational news article that is fake or from a heavily-biased site promoting an agenda. But can today’s students tell the difference between what is legitimate and what is false? The answer might surprise you.

Practical PIL Beginning Your Research at Colgate University Colgate University (NY) A what-matters-most site for undergraduates needing to conduct scholarly research at Colgate University. The site provides just enough guidance for getting started and defining and narrowing down a topic--the research step PIL has found stumps students most often. RAIL: Recipes for Advancing Information Literacy College of Wooster (OH), Muhlenburg College (PA), SUNY Geneseo (NY), Vassar College (NY) A collaborative, holistic, and interactive site that uses the “cookbook” metaphor to present novel information literacy practices, such as using open-source research tools, creating concept maps, and using motion charts. Always improving, always new, the site’s recipes provide the ingredients needed and link to related “recipes” plus input from the user community.

Google Applied Digital Skills Review for Teachers The Google Applied Digital Skills curriculum is great for teachers updating an old-school computer skills class. With an emphasis on creativity, collaboration, and personal interests, this ISTE-aligned curriculum really focuses on modern technology skills. In recent years, digital citizenship and coding skills have gotten a lot of airplay, and for good reason, but often at the expense of some other critical tech skills. Google Applied Digital Skills strives to address college- and career-ready skills, plus life skills like planning a vacation, hosting an event, and making a budget. The pace may be a little fast for some learners, though students can repeat modules, or teachers can develop extension activities.

Literati "97% of [library] directors agreed that helping undergrads 'develop research, critical analysis, and information literacy skills' is very important at their library."1 Students lack the skills to frame their research questions, search effectively, and organize and communicate their findings. Literati by Credo is a library teaching tool and online research platform that provides top quality reference sources paired with point-of-need instruction. Why Literati by Credo? Teaching Global Digital Citizenship? Use These 10 Essential Questions Teaching Global Digital Citizenship is all about asking the right questions. Today kids are building the foundations of a digital culture. They are contributors, creators, communicators, and designers. They author, produce and provide digital information all the time. We can ask them challenging questions and get insightful answers! A Global Digital Citizen practices leadership, ethics, global awareness, and personal responsibility.

This is Why Media Literacy Matters in a Transforming World Media literacy has become a more important consideration in our children’s futures than ever. It behooves educators to be familiar with media’s role in our changing world. Media is here to stay as a main component of how society shares information across a vast population quickly. While some teachers fear it, others are realizing the potential to reach more students through things that our digital natives are familiar with. When importance is given to finding and harnessing ways that students learn best, the modern teacher benefits as much as students. At the same time we must be addressing citizenship within the digital community.

Can You Tell Fake News From Real? Study Finds Students Have 'Dismaying' Inability Stanford researchers assessed students from middle school to college and found they struggled to distinguish ads from articles, neutral sources from biased ones and fake accounts from real ones. Gary Waters/Ikon Images/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Gary Waters/Ikon Images/Getty Images

National Association for Media Literacy Education Media contact: Kristi Avram press@namle.net Leading U.S. Education Organizations Unite to Create National Media Literacy Education Alliance NAMLE Launches Network to Serve Millions of Educators and Advance Media Literacy Education in United States (NEW YORK CITY – June 2, 2020) – The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) today announced the formation of the National Media Literacy Alliance (Alliance).

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