Showing posts with label information literacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label information literacy. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

How I failed an Information Literacy Assessment

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 I often "check out the competition" so to speak. This time it was NorthStar, a St. Paul, MN-based literacy company that offers a...
Thursday, May 5, 2022

Beyond Information Literacy?

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  The differences between illiteracy, literacy and fluency are fuzzy, at best, when it comes to digital information competencies. The Spring...
Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Recommended reading: Why we need information literacy classes By VICTOR SHI Chicago Tribune

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  The following article by Victor Shi, an eloquent Gen Z'er appeared recently in the Chicago Tribune (May 2, 2022). He makes a good argu...
Friday, February 28, 2020

Twitter fooled by Fake Candidate

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A few election cycles ago, there was the story of Susie Flynn running for President. It was a hoax published by a media company to attract...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Elementary Workshop Refreshed

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Especially for those who teach younger students, the Elementary Workshop is a user-guided resource that may be used to introduce and reinf...
Thursday, May 2, 2019

Introducing the 15 Challenges

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Confused by where or how to get started on the path to Information Fluency? Introducing the 15 Challenges, a new portal to Information F...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

New LEGO Challenge

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Improvements in Google algorithm have made the Lego History Challenge too easy to solve as a Level 2 Challenge. Consequently, a new chal...
Monday, September 10, 2018

Finding and Fact-checking Information

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Here is the third and final free preview in this series of WSI (Website Investigator) tutorials. The Fact Checking tutorial is a useful...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

98% Gullibility?

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"Only 2 per cent of children and young people can tell if a news story is real or fake, according to a survey published today." ...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

Summer Full Circle Resource Kit

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Bias Detection is the newest Kit in the Full Circle series . One of the most popular MicroModules on the Information Fluency site is Bia...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Out of the Library, Into the Classroom

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What's happening in Kansas isn't unique. Wichita Public Radio's feature,  " The School Librarian is Expendable in man...
Monday, May 18, 2015

Trends in Information Literacy

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Our friends at EasyBib have produced a new Infographic that confirms our findings that the majority of instruction depends on one-shot instr...
Monday, November 24, 2014

Searching Myth Exposed (again)

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source It's not true: growing up digital makes one an effective digital searcher. We've stated this before in our book, Teach...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

A New Framework for Fluency?

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This article caught my eye today: Reimagining Information Literacy Competencies  by Barbie E. Keiser...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

The Death of Information Literacy

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According to the blog Infonatives , information literacy is dead. Indeed, Google trends for the past five years shows a consistent decline...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Yes, There's a Need - Part 3

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When people aren't sure what else to do, they resort to browsing. While using a query or truncating a url might be a faster solution t...
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Sunday, July 12, 2009

World's Fastest Animal

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"What is the top speed of earth's fastest animal?" Seems simple enough. But just letting students search for an answer shor...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Information Forensics goes to School

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Yesterday, Dennis O'Connor and I presented "Information Forensics goes to School" at the NECC conference in Washington, D.C.* ...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Finding the Black Box

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Homing in on information online is similar to locating a downed aircraft's black box in one respect: both send out signals. In the case...
Friday, May 29, 2009

Five Keys to Investigative Searching

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When it comes right down to it, there aren't a lot of techniques involved in investigative searching. As opposed to speculative searchin...