Library Media Tech Talk: Four Ways To Lead From The School Library Updated February 18, 2017 Recently, I have heard from many teacher librarian friends around the country (and world) that are encountering the effects of personnel and/ or budget cuts. This deeply saddens me when I learn of library services being cut back in any way. We should explore ways to be proactive to hopefully minimize these effects. Sometimes, no amount of promoting the library seems to make a difference when money is tight, but we should still make the effort to show the value of the library. It is crucial that we show the school, community, and world that libraries are an essential part of learning. 1. I used to think that libraries were only about books and technology. The same is true with teachers. For our library team, relationships are everything in the school library. 2. When relationships grow stronger, people will typically begin to communicate more. 3. Listening is not enough. 4. Great things can happen when we build relationships, listen, and serve. Final Thoughts
USA Today: Students need to know this for media literacy Students today are increasingly turning to online new sources to meet their research needs. Because of this, it is important for educators to teach students about trustworthy news sources and separating real news from fake news—but how can teachers impart these media literacy skills when trends in journalism are constantly shifting? In “Media Literacy: A Crash Course in 60 Minutes,” hosted by edWeb.net and sponsored by Mackin Educational Resources, Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair at New Canaan High School, CT, interviewed Greg Toppo, the National Education and Demographics reporter for USA Today, about today’s shifting trends in journalism and how teachers can help students identify reliable sources. Know 4 Qualities of Good Journalism “Is there such a thing as objective journalism?” “If you can be complete, honest, accurate, and fair, objectivity shouldn’t even matter,” he said. Consider How the Content is Sponsored (Next page: The role of social media in media literacy)
SchoolJournalism.org : News, Information and Media Literacy The onset of the digital age forever changed the way readers interact with news and the way that journalists do journalism. Now that more data is produced in a single second that can possibly be consumed in a lifetime, the need for news literacy has never been more important. Simply put, news literacy is the ability to use critical thinking skills to judge the reliability and credibility of news reports and information sources. Want to learn more? News Literacy Model Curriculum and Lesson PlansThese lessons integrate news literacy into math, social studies, English and science classrooms. News and Media Literacy Lesson PlansThese lesson plans, curated from selected organizations, help teachers easily bring news and media literacy into any classroom. Six Principles of News LiteracyGain a better understanding of news literacy and its importance to a democratic society with definitions and principles developed by thought leaders in the news literacy field.
Home - LILi: Lifelong Information Literacy - CampusGuides at Glendale College LILi = a group of librarians from various types of California libraries, investigating information literacy definitions, standards and instruction in California, in order to craft effective models of lifelong, sequential information literacy instruction. Why would you want to use this site? To find links to information literacy/competency, information researching, critical thinking sites, lesson plans, and more. To discover how other libraries in California are helping their users learn how to learn. To make use of standards and guidelines relating to information literacy/competency teaching and learning More... What is "information literacy"? See also: President Barak Obama's Presidential Proclamation: National Information Literacy Awareness Month, October 2009.
What Essential Web Literacy Skills are Missing from Current Learning Standards? by An-Me Chung and Iris Bond Gill Our lives — and work — are moving online. Are current learning standards addressing the essential web literacy skills everyone should know? Increasingly, every job will become a digital job — whether field worker, designer, engineer or educator. As an organization driven to build a healthy, safe and open internet that is a public resource for all, Mozilla has assembled a set of standards for web literacy and 21st Century (21C) skills. Crosswalk We examined the following workforce and learning standards to better understand what essential web literacy skills were included or missing. This analysis shows that some of the concepts embedded in the Web Literacy Map are being addressed in current standards. The analysis also highlighted critical gaps in the standards outlined above. U.S. Essentially, several critical web literacy skills are not included in ALA’s definition nor the more detailed learning standards of its school and college library divisions. U.S.
Digital Literacy Examples of Good Discussion Questions — UW Oshkosh Desire2Learn FAQ Online discussions are vital toward reaching learning objectives. Think about ways to link the discussions and activities to specific outcomes so students “see” the connections. In face-to-face courses, discussions are spontaneous; in online keep students alert, get a few outgoing students involved if naturally progresses or instructor motivates responses through questioning, prompting, additional resources, personal examples, current event that applies. Planned ahead and constructed, as are the responses Motivation for studying the materials – peers will be reading the responses Use discussion rather than reiteration Discussions often have two or three parts; make sure this is clear to the students. Expectations for Course Discussions: Students are required to respond to at least two other student postings. Do you agree or disagree and why. Example 1: Promote Discussion This type of discussion is used to create background information that the students can use in the course. Smith, R.( 2008).
On student scrutiny: two strategies We’re focusing a lot of attention these days of helping students determine credibility. For many of us, this is not a hot new topic. I dug around a bit and dusted off a couple of tools that, I think, stand the test of time. You are welcome to make copies and retool them for you own needs. This Current Events Analysis Scaffold forces thinking beyond the Ws. And then there’s my magic bullet. Evaluative, annotated works cited sections require and inspire the development of critical research and evaluation skills. Here’s the document we used to guide students through their annotations: Evaluative, Annotated Works Cited (High School) Annotations frequently include brief, two-sentence summaries. Check with your teacher to see which of the following elements you should include in your annotations: Author’s credentials (these may be contextual–relative to the format, situation or information need)Intended audience (For whom was this work produced and why?) Example of an evaluative annotation: Save
Fake-news search engine tracks spread of lies - CNET Now you can map the web of lies. A beta version of Hoaxy, a search engine designed to track fake news, was released Wednesday by Indiana University's Network Science Institute and its Center for Complex Networks and System Research. Hoaxy indexes stories from 132 sites known to produce fake news, such as WashingtonPost.com.co and MSNBC.website, and allows you to see how these sites' links spread across social media. Fake news has plagued the internet and social networks for a long time but has grown in prominence in the past year or so, forcing Facebook to introduce new features to flag false articles. The hoaxes have lead to real-life consequences, with a fake news creator taking some credit for Donald Trump's White House win and a Washington DC shooting earlier this month related to "Pizzagate." Type any subject, and Hoaxy responds with a list of fake articles related to the search term. There are even fake news stories about fake news. Enlarge Image
Pablo by Buffer - Design engaging images for your social media posts in under 30 seconds Verification Handbook for Investigative Reporting Craig Silverman is the founder of Emergent, a real-time rumor tracker and debunker. He was a fellow with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, and is a leading expert on media errors, accuracy and verification. Craig is also the founder and editor of Regret the Error, a blog about media accuracy and the discipline of verification that is now a part of the Poynter Institute. He edited the Verification Handbook, previously served as director of content for Spundge, and helped launch OpenFile, an online local news startup that delivered community-driven reporting in six Canadian cities. Craig is also the former managing editor of PBS MediaShift and has been a columnist for The Globe And Mail, Toronto Star, and Columbia Journalism Review. He tweets at @craigsilverman. Rina Tsubaki leads and manages the "Verification Handbook" and "Emergency Journalism" initiatives at the European Journalism Centre in the Netherlands.
Web Evaluation: Does This Website Smell Funny to You? One of my friends spent this past weekend working with her 2nd grade daughter on a research project. While her daughter flew through the arts and crafts portion and was able to handwrite the “sloppy copy” of her presentation, she struggled when it came to typing the final draft. She didn’t know where the period was. She didn’t know how to use the shift key (and then declared that turning caps lock on and off was far superior and easier than using the shift key). This reminded me how easy it is to overestimate our students’ abilities when it comes to technology. One of my favorite things to work on with students in this area is website evaluation. When working with older students (8th through 12th grade), I’ve always relied on the CRAAP Test (pdf) from California State University Chico. As wonderful a tool as it is, the CRAAP Test has a sophistication (despite its name) that makes it inaccessible for the 5th through 7th grade. F: Is the site Friendly to the eyes? Like this:
14. Web 2.0 tools and beyond – 23 teaching things Thing14 is about using Web 2.0 tools to produce information such as blogs, wikis, podcasts and media sharing, rather than just consuming it. In this Thing we talk about the pedagogy using Web 2.0 tools and beyond. We share some resources about Web 2.0 tools. What are Web 2.0 tools? Web 2.0 tools are online software and web-based services that let users create, collaborate, edit and share content online. Believe it or not, you have already been using Web 2.0 tools: creating an online blog (Thing 4), writing in the cloud (Thing 6, 7 and 8) and creating your own digital resource (Thing 9, 10, 11 and 12). Pedagogy for Web 2.0 tools As you plan how to use digital tools to enhance and improve students’ learning, Dr Ruben Puentedura’s SAMR model is helpful. Teachers need to consider how, why and when we use digital tools in the classroom. As digital tools open up opportunities for new ways of teaching and learning, what other skills do we need to teach? Web 2.0 tools for thinking Try this
Patterns of Deception - Politics Welcome to FlackCheck.org’s Detecting Patterns of Deception, the beta version of a new page designed to help viewers spot and debunk slippery moves in politics. Watch videos on the Climate Change Debate, the Sequester Debate, the Affordable Care Act Debate, the Gun Debate and the Immigration Debate to see patterns of deception in contemporary debates. On the page, we parse misleading political communication into six main categories. Misunderstanding the Process identifies ways in which misleading assumptions about the nature and extent of executive or legislative power drive problematic promises, attacks and self-congratulatory communication. Misleading Use Of Language features ways in which politicians exploit the ambiguities and connotations in words to prompt unjustified conclusions. Misleading Audio/Visual Cuing illustrates how pictures and sound can be manipulated to elicit false inferences. False Logic covers common errors in argument that lead audiences to faulty conclusions.