Katy Golden
IL
Coughlan, S. (2017). Schools should teach pupils how to spot 'fake news'. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.com/news/education-39272841
In an article that I thought was especially relevant given the current political climate, this author discusses how the educational leadership in England plans to alter their standardized test, the Pisa, to assess students' abilities to think critically and distinguish fake news from real news. They talk exstensively about the idea of critical judgment, and how students need to have the 21st century skill of being able to parse out truth from fiction.
Now that you can't necessarily trust everything you read, especially on the Internet, it's particularly important that kids can think critically and decide for themselves what is and isn't true. They warn of other dangers inherent in the current social media culture as well, such as the development of a mono-culture and the belief in one right way to do things, that they suggest teachers address as well.
As school librarians, it's a big part of our job to help kids become information literate and a very big part of that is developing the skill of parsing fake news from real news.
Showing posts with label IL - Media Literacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IL - Media Literacy. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Education and the Mediated Subject
Mary Fobbs-Guillory
ET
Saul, R. (2016). Education and the mediated subject: What today’s teachers need most from researchers of youth and media. Journal of Children and Media, 10(2). Pp.156-163
Roger Saul discusses how the education system that is still in place in most schools around or country is operating on old understandings of how children work and what they need from schools. He says that researchers can help bridge the divide of where were are now to where we should be by helping educators see the untapped potential of their students and the valuable skills they can contribute to their education. He states that there has been a “mass imposition and perpetuation of a constructed reality...embedded in power relations that have operated to deny in young people a range of options for self-understanding and expression that they might otherwise be entitled to” p.158. Teachers may not even realize they are marginalizing students because they are also being robbed of their agency.
This article echoed a lot of sentiments that I've been learning about in my Young Adults library class and that I have felt as an educator. Students can be very bored with the low level work they are often assigned. They need more of a challenge and they are more committed to that challenge when they have input and autonomy. There are a lot of studies that show the value and importance of inquiry and constructed knowledge, yet it is still not the norm in most schools. I sincerely hope that changes.
ET
Saul, R. (2016). Education and the mediated subject: What today’s teachers need most from researchers of youth and media. Journal of Children and Media, 10(2). Pp.156-163
Roger Saul discusses how the education system that is still in place in most schools around or country is operating on old understandings of how children work and what they need from schools. He says that researchers can help bridge the divide of where were are now to where we should be by helping educators see the untapped potential of their students and the valuable skills they can contribute to their education. He states that there has been a “mass imposition and perpetuation of a constructed reality...embedded in power relations that have operated to deny in young people a range of options for self-understanding and expression that they might otherwise be entitled to” p.158. Teachers may not even realize they are marginalizing students because they are also being robbed of their agency.
This article echoed a lot of sentiments that I've been learning about in my Young Adults library class and that I have felt as an educator. Students can be very bored with the low level work they are often assigned. They need more of a challenge and they are more committed to that challenge when they have input and autonomy. There are a lot of studies that show the value and importance of inquiry and constructed knowledge, yet it is still not the norm in most schools. I sincerely hope that changes.
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Schloman, B. F., & Gedeon, J. A. (2007). Creating TRAILS. Knowledge Quest, 35(5), 44-47.
Retrieved from http://libaccess.sjlibrary.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=26673575&site=ehost-live&scope=site
It is often difficult to create assessments that are adequate when measuring the skills of students who are learning about information literacy This article discusses the Trails Assessment which was created to help in the assessment of information literacy skills. The Trails Assessment was created by Kent State University and is way to gauge a student's grasp of information literacy. The assessment tool has is freely available resource that is standards based and available through the web. If a teacher uses this tool they can evaluate the skills of their students and what they need to teach them.
Information literacy is dead: the role of libraries in a post-truth world
Audrey Kelly
IL
Johnson, Ben. "Information literacy is dead: the role of libraries in a post-truth world."
IL
Johnson, Ben. "Information literacy is dead: the role of libraries in a post-truth world."
Computers in Libraries, Mar. 2017, p. 12+. Expanded Academic ASAP,
go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GPS&sw=w&u=va_s_123_0100&v=2.1&
it=r&id=GALE%7CA485972264&asid=66deeaf745f81bde38356dd0ca3b138b. Accessed
11 Apr. 2017.
go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GPS&sw=w&u=va_s_123_0100&v=2.1&
it=r&id=GALE%7CA485972264&asid=66deeaf745f81bde38356dd0ca3b138b. Accessed
11 Apr. 2017.
A feature/opinion piece calling for librarians to remain true to the principles of providing accurate and factual information. The author asks “... are our efforts to promote intellectual freedom--a diehard dogma in library science, which resists all forms of censorship--also a cover? Does our total commitment to intellectual freedom stand even if it means sacrificing those other stated values of public good, democracy, and social responsibility?” Johnson cogently describes the high stakes factors involved with ‘fake news’ and ‘information wars’.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)