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#Informationliteracy is not passive; it is active and participatory. We don’t passively consume info. We actively filter it through our own beliefs, values and biases. We engage with it, process it, pass it on and make new meaning from it. That meaning affects the decisions...
we make about our health, our relationships, our communities and our society. We're not victims of disinformation. We are participants. Part of taking responsibility for the role we play in this process involves a better understanding of how what we bring to those transactions...
affects our ability to determine credibility. We spend a lot of time helping kids understand that a lack of authoritative information about a source is cause for suspicion, and that's true. But I've spent the last two days thinking about the opposite: about how an abundance of...
knowledge about a source or a perceived relationship (such as the connections we make on social media) can cause us to lower necessary standards of skepticism. This is part of why mnemonic devices alone don't work. #Disinformation doesn't happen to us. It happens within us.....
Today, as I as I work through edits of a unit plan for 4th/5th graders that explores these ideas, here's a thing I know for sure: the information literacy problems we face are not external. They are IN us. But that also means, so are the solutions. #factVSfiction #digcit
