"when a consensus view is false, misleading, or overly simplistic (as is evident in dominant COVID narratives), strategies like lateral reading won’t be enough, and may even reinforce a belief that false or misleading information is true"
@criplib #InfoLit
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2023/covid-narratives/

As a #librarian and one of the few people still masking in my library/on campus, I really appreciate this essay: “Dominant COVID Narratives and Implications for Information Literacy in the ‘Post-Pandemic’ United States”

#InformationLiteracy #InfoLit #CritLib #CripLib

https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2023/covid-narratives/

Wrote a blog post about my PhD literature review on the information literacy of engineering students #InformationLiteracy #LISresearch #InfoLit

http://woodsieresearch.co.uk/2023/08/24/teaching-information-literacy-to-engineers/

My poster is at @ALAAC23 without me! Thanks to Sandra Echols for presenting our work "Did a bot do your work? Addressing pre-trained text generation apps in information literacy instruction" (she just sent me this pic)

See the poster (and the accompanying #infolit lesson plan) at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UivxdhxcnilEco7HF22smQ7NZDHK1SSu?usp=sharing

Hi #medlibs #librarians #infolit
We often tell library users, "searching is iterative; keep trying different terms and resources"

Does anyone have a nice format or template for iterating -- one that invites users to articulate what was unsatisfactory about the previous iteration? Or, "unsatisfactory" sounds very deficit model -- but what else they want to find, or what their goals are for the next round

#metacognition #reflection

Hi #medlibs #datalibs #InfoLit #InformationLiteracy folks,
Can you teach lateral reading in a one-shot? What about a one-session workshop unconnected to a class?

More #informationLiteracy & general design of anything online needs to start from the fact that white supremacists have been using the internet in well-organized ways literally since before there was an internet. #infoLit

Think they started recently? Try 1996.
No, wait. Actually, 1990.
No, actually, hold up: even that was an outgrowth of a BBS started in 1984.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormfront_(website)

"Unprepared" at this point mostly just means somewhere on a spectrum that includes "willfully ignorant," "seeking plausible deniability," & "quietly colluding."

Our colleague, @KarenVeitch, recently presented at the @UKSGofficial Annual Conference on information literacy training for students on open research skills. 👍

Learn more here:

Guiding students through a shifting landscape : integrating Open Research topics into information literacy training at the University of Strathclyde https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/85284/ #OpenResearch #OpenAccess #OpenData #ResearchData #infolit

Information literacy skills aren't just for high school students. Adults can learn (or re-learn) important skills around factchecking and vetting sources and claims.

On Tuesday, April 25, 4-6 p.m. (Pacific), we're presenting, with our statewide partners at the WSU Murrow College of Communication, a special "Mini" MisinfoDay virtual event with a series of short talks and workshops.

▶️ Register to attend: https://www.washington.edu/alumni/events/think-more-share-less-mini-misinfoday/

#UWCIP #MisinfoDay #InfoLit #Education #WA #Seattle

Last month, approximately 700 high school students, plus teachers, librarians and other educators from across WA participated in three in-person MisinfoDay educational events hosted at UW Seattle, WSU Pullman and WSU Vancouver.

▶️ Learn more about our MisinfoDay program and this educational work:
https://www.cip.uw.edu/2023/03/28/misinfoday-2023-washington-program-lessons/

▶️ Watch an Associated Press video report from MisinfoDay at UW Seattle: https://apnews.com/video/education-misinformation-teaching-texas-australia-d1ebca7fba3240a4af275ca3a039b403

#UWCIP #MisinfoDay #InfoLit #InformationLiteracy #Education #WA #Seattle

RT @sheilayoshikawa
Alternative search engines: A short article highlights"new search engines like Brave Search, Neeva and http://You.com" and how they differ from Google et. al.
Lewandowski, D. (2023, 7 March). Search engines that give users control over… http://dlvr.it/SmXYpr #infolit

Disinformation: Dealing with the Disaster

By: Nina Verishagen and Diane Zerr

"Readers will come to understand various concerning concepts such as information overload and fake news, while engaging in discussions about familiar online entities including trolls, bots and influencers."

https://pressbooks.saskpolytech.ca/disinformation/

#Disinformation #InfoLit #InformationLiteracy #OER #OERs #NinaVerishagen #DianeZerr

Disinformation: Dealing with the Disaster

By: Nina Verishagen and Diane Zerr

"Disinformation: Dealing with the Disaster provides a foundational knowledge of today’s chaotic online information environment. Readers will come to understand various concerning concepts such as information overload and fake news, while engaging in discussions about familiar online entities including trolls, bots and influencers."

https://pressbooks.saskpolytech.ca/disinformation/

#Disinformation #InfoLit #InformationLiteracy #OER #OERs

Are you interested in information literacy? Whether you are a member of the CILIP Information Literacy Group @Infolitgroup or not, we want to hear from you!

Our survey is open, and should only take 5-10 minutes to complete: https://forms.gle/t3gZ7QBhHJH553DP7

Tell us what you think, and help us plan for the future!

Boosts welcome :)

#infolit #informationliteracy

#CallForChapters 

Working Title: Critical Information Literacy Applications in Libraries, published by ALA Editions

Edited by: Lauren S. Kehoe, Accessibility & Accommodations Librarian, New York University, and Julie N. Hornick, Senior Instructional Services Librarian, Florida Southern College

Please send questions to CILApplicationsInLibraries@gmail.com

Link to Form: https://forms.gle/94RCjN58hHoSCb7A8 

#InfoLit #CritLib

I get the concern with AI - or 'essay bots' as they call them here... but the response is like burying heads in the sand. AI tools like this will be part of these children's world. They need to be taught how to use AI - appropriately, ethically, safely & responsibly. Also, understanding how accuracy isn't guaranteed. Those 'old-school' information literacy skills and the ability to spot #FakeNews have never been more important.

#AI #Education #ChatGPT #School #GCSE #SchoolAI #Teachers #ArtificialIntelligence #InformationLiteracy #InfoLit

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/29/essay-writing-chatbot-could-mean-end-homework-schools-warn/

23 resources selected by the #IFLA Artificial Intelligence SIG to get up to speed on #AI in 2023

👉 #ArtificialIntelligence is said to be having a dramatic, even transformative effect on many aspects of society. It will affect #libraries in multiple ways, through its use in #library services but also through changing the search landscape, and so #informationliteracy.

https://www.ifla.org/23-resources-to-get-up-to-speed-on-ai-in-2023/

#infolit

Disseminating biomedical #research: #Predatory journals and practices - Indian Journal Rheumatology https://www.indianjrheumatol.com/article.asp?issn=0973-3698;year=2022;volume=17;issue=6;spage=328;epage=333;aulast=Khan

#PredatoryJournals #PredatoryPublishing #PubMed #research #publishers #training #infolit #bestpractices

New instance new #introduction

Hi all! I'm a reverence librarian who spends way too much of my life scrolling with the dead anticipation of the next wild theory a patron is going to bring to my desk 😅 as a result, in this acct I'm focused on #news with a special interest in #misinfo and #disinfo

I also have a professional interest in #infolit so a healthy #journalism environment is high on my list off things to support and boost whenever i can

I’ve got an article in the latest issues of Art Libraries Journal about library teaching, and the pandemic. It is open access https://www.doi.org/10.1017/alj.2022.18

Trying to learn to feel proud rather than awkward about my work. Going through a big love/hate relationship with this paper which took a very long time to write. And very nearly stayed in the drafts folder forever!

#libraries #artlibraries #infolit #librarian