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Library 2.017: “Digital Literacy + Fake News” Mini-Conference | June 1, 2017
Bonus Resource Pack - a work in progress kept at www.literacy.digital

Conference Network: http://www.library20.com
Conference Registration (free): https://digitalliteracyandfakenews.eventbrite.com/
A Learning Revolution Project: http://www.learningrevolution.com

KEYNOTE PANELISTS

From Bryan Alexander:

Event Summary: What fake news is doing to digital literacy https://bryanalexander.org/2017/06/03/what-fake-news-is-doing-to-digital-literacy/

Digital Literacy > An NMC Horizon Project Strategic Brief https://www.nmc.org/publication/digital-literacy-an-nmc-horizon-project-strategic-brief/

Syllabus: Social Media Literacies, Instructor: Howard Rheingold, Stanford Winter Quarter 2013 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pIxVqXT6EO_CoxCCD3tj9uYujVzhHzGWcYgT31LGQhc/edit

https://bryanalexander.org/2017/02/09/digital-literacy-and-anti-authoritarian-politics/

From Doug Belshaw:

See post at http://literaci.es/fake-news-resources

1. My own work
The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies (book, pay what you want/can)
The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies (video, TEDx Warwick)
A Brief History of Web Literacy and its Future Potential (blog post, DML Central)
Curate or Be Curated: Why Our Information Environment is Crucial to a Flourishing Democracy, Civil Society (blog post, DML Central)
Reclaiming the Web for the Next Generation (blog post, DML Central)
Digital Literacy, Identity and a Domain of One’s Own (blog post, DML Central)
What does it mean to be a digitally literate school leader? (blog post, Literaci.es)
Can digital literacy be deconstructed into learnable units? (blog post, Literaci.es)
Digital Literacy is about power (blog post, Literaci.es)
Digital literacies have a civic element (blog post, Literaci.es)
2. Other links/resources
Everything is Broken (blog post, Quinn Norton, The Message)
Facebook’s Secret Mood Experiment and the Challenges of Living Online (blog post, Ian O'Byrne)
Digital literacy and democracy (blog post, Helen Beetham)
How to Increase Our Digital Literacy Literacy (blog post, Bonnie Stachowiak, Teaching in Higher Ed)
Yes, Digital Literacy. But Which One? (blog post, Mike Caulfield)
‘Fake news’: the best thing that’s happened to journalism (blog post, Charlie Beckett, LSE Polis)
Did Media Literacy Backfire? (blog post, danah boyd, Data & Society: Points)
According to Snopes, Fake News Is Not the Problem (blog post, Jessi Hempel, Backchannel)
Bots aren’t spreading fake news on Facebook; humans are (blog post, Joon Ian Wong, Quartz)
Is ‘fake news’ a fake problem? (Jacob L. Nelson, Columbia Journalism Review)

From Lisa Hinchliffe:

DIGITAL AND INFORMATION ALITERACY: https://lisahinchliffe.com/2017/05/28/digital-and-information-aliteracy/

This blog post has gotten more readers than anything else on my blog and relates to information literacy - https://lisahinchliffe.com/2016/06/19/information-literacy-constellation/ - but it's very "inside baseball" for the academic library community as we worked through a major policy change in ACRL.

This is a more scholarly-ish piece from 2006 and not so much on the digital literacy/fake news angle but on how newspapers are a resource for teaching global perspectives and developing media literacy - "Digital News: Key to Global Literacy and Information Literacy Education (https://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla72/papers/079-Hinchliffe_Schmitz-en.pdf).

Finally, this editorial I wrote also brings in the idea of mindset - which is part of (to me) what we need to inculcate in students - Information Literacy as a Way of Life (https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/94855).

As to other links, I think this report is incredibly important and useful - also with a May 2017 publication date ... contemporary: Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online (https://datasociety.net/output/media-manipulation-and-disinfo-online/).

Also: Digital Polarization Initiative (https://adpaascu.wordpress.com/category/digital-polarization-initiative/), which is lead by Michael Caulfield (and his personal blog is a gold mine of reflective essays as well as teaching ideas - https://hapgood.us/ - including this insightful critique of methods that libraries use to teach information evaluation - https://hapgood.us/2016/12/19/yes-digital-literacy-but-which-one/ and this great book for students on web literacy/fact checking: https://hapgood.us/2017/02/13/web-literacy-for-student-fact-checkers-is-out/).

From Mnar Muhawesh:

‘Fake News’ Isn’t New: Dissecting Two Decades Of War Propaganda http://www.mintpressnews.com/fake-news-isnt-new-dissecting-two-decades-of-war-propaganda/224022/

SESSION PRESENTERS

From Sarah FitzHenry:

We created a teaching kit that we want to share and get feedback on as a companion to our article, Supremo’s Cause Tidal Waves—True or False? Our news literacy program challenges fourth graders to find out (School Library Journal).

Teaching Kit @ thimbleprojects.org/techkim/258242

From Kristin Fontichiaro:

http://dataliteracy.si.umich.edu

From Mark Ray:

Truthiness: Seattle Op/Ed
http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/save-the-children-by-fighting-truthiness/

RU a Curator?
https://medium.com/amalgamated-futures/meditations-in-a-transformat...

Feedback: Creating Digital Citizens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-6ybglSYfc

Future Ready Librarians
http://futureready.org/librarians

Digital Citizenship: The Next Big Legislative Trend?
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/kids-action/blog/the-digital-citizenship-movement-the-next-big-legislative-trend

From Frank Baker (cancelled session):

http://www.frankwbaker.com/mlc (The Media Literacy Clearinghouse)
http://frankwbaker.com/mlc/fake-news-recommendations/ (Fake News Remedy Recommendations)

From Shannon Steimel:

http://liftforlifeacademyreads.wordpress.com

From Joyce Valenza:

Truth, truthiness, triangulation: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world | http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2016/11/26/truth-truthiness-triangulation-and-the-librarian-way-a-news-literacy-toolkit-for-a-post-truth-world

From Melda Yildiz:

Yildiz, M.N. (2016). Media binds or blinds? Deconstructing myths and misconceptions in global media education. J. Singh, P. Kerr & E. Hamburger. (Ed.) MILID 2016 Yearbook: Media and Information Literacy: Reinforcing Human Rights, Countering Radicalization and Extremism. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Retrieved from http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002463/246371e.pdf
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170301-lies-propaganda-and-fake-n...

https://galeri.wikispaces.com/UNESCO

OTHER

http://informationliteracy.org/

Parent & Educator Guide to Media Literacy & Fake News https://www.connectsafely.org/fakenews/

The Media Frames Corpus: Annotations of Frames Across Issues http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~nasmith/papers/card+boydstun+gross+resnik+smith.acl15.pdf

Project Censored www.projectcensored.org

Project Censored in the Classroom http://projectcensored.org/project-censoreds-commitment-to-independent-news-in-the-classroom/

Censorship Guide for Teachers http://projectcensored.org/censorship/teachers-guide/

Independent News Links http://projectcensored.org/independent-news-links/

Action Coalition for Media Education www.acmecoalition.org

Challenging Big Media News and Censorship http://www.acmecoalition.org/challenging_censorship_acmes_project_censored_tool_kit/index.html

Questioning Media - Ten Basic Principles of Media Literacy Education http://www.acmecoalition.org/files/ACME_questioningmedia.pdf

Our 21st Century Media Culture: Eight Shifts http://www.acmecoalition.org/our_21st_century_media_culture_eight_shifts/

http://www.slj.com/2017/03/webcasts/experts-share-insight-tools-to-help-students-fight-fake-news/#_

http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2016/11/26/truth-truthiness-triangulation-and-the-librarian-way-a-news-literacy-toolkit-for-a-post-truth-world/

http://www.slj.com/2017/04/opinion/the-fake-news-fad-let-it-fade-opinion/ Michelle Luhtala

https://www.facinghistory.org/calendar/web2017nat7-student-summit-viral-rumors-and-fact-checking

RumorEval http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2017/task8/

Pathology of a Fake News Story https://medium.com/thoughts-on-journalism/pathology-of-a-fake-news-story-aa572e6764e8

Pheme https://www.pheme.eu/

http://digitalcitizenship.org/

http://nypost.com/2017/05/06/medical-studies-are-almost-always-bogus/

Is Fake News a Machine Learning Problem? http://approximatelycorrect.com/2017/01/23/is-fake-news-a-machine-learning-problem/

https://www.wikitribune.com

TED and TEDx Videos

How to choose your news | Damon Brown | TED-Ed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Y-z6HmRgI

Astroturf and manipulation of media messages | Sharyl Attkisson | TEDxUniversityofNevada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bYAQ-ZZtEU&ab_channel=TEDxTalks

How to defend yourself against misleading statistics in the news | Sanne Blauw | TEDxMaastricht https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ63-bQc9Xg

Why most news stories aren't true stories | Sarah Smarsh | TEDxTopeka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN2KBCFdKO0&t=4s

Fixing the News | Coleen Christie | TEDxVancouver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwmGTM5Py8Y

Creating critical thinkers through media literacy: Andrea Quijada at TEDxABQED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHAApvHZ6XE

Literacy is not enough: Kushal Chakrabarti at TEDxBrussels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN_1hJRgG3U

Finding truth in a post-truth world | Elliot Higgins | TEDxAmsterdam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mozxTk3Brqw

WHAT IS INFORMATION LITERACY?

Information Literacy is the ability to identify what information is needed, understand how the information is organized, identify the best sources of information for a given need, locate those sources, evaluate the sources critically, and share that information. It is the knowledge of commonly used research techniques.

WHY IS INFORMATION LITERACY IMPORTANT?

Information literacy is critically important because we are surrounded by a growing ocean of information in all formats. Not all information is created equal: some is authoritative, current, reliable, but some is biased, out of date, misleading, false. The amount of information available is going to keep increasing. The types of technology used to access, manipulate, and create information will likewise expand.

HOW WILL I USE INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS?

Information literacy skills are used for academic purposes, such as research papers and group presentations. They're used on the job—the ability to find, evaluate, use and share information is an essential skill. Consumer decisions, such as which car or vacuum cleaner to purchase, are critical. You'll also use these skills by participating fully in a democratic society as an informed citizen by understanding issues and voting.