Information Literacy Resources for teachers
If you have other resources you want to add, please send me an email at mtroutman [at] TJS (dot) org
Talks and Classroom Resources
- TALK: ISACS Annual Conference talk (November 10, 2017): https://goo.gl/cZwcw4
- TALK: STL in StL talk (June 6, 2017): https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/198barKdDPN_hJ9iLluwZSAjVznCeyIRBWMHfP9R_tUg/edit?usp=sharing
- A resource for information literacy regarding the news, including course material: https://www.centerfornewsliteracy.org/
- A general resource itself, also with examples and links to other resources: http://www.slj.com/2017/01/industry-news/the-smell-test-educators-can-counter-fake-news-with-information-literacy-heres-how/#_
- An article including steps to have discussions with passionate issues: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-convince-someone-when-facts-fail/
- Lesson plans for history: https://sheg.stanford.edu/rlh
- Stanford report with lesson plans: https://sheg.stanford.edu/upload/V3LessonPlans/Executive%20Summary%2011.21.16.pdf
Reports, research, and articles
- Teachers are viewed by students as being reliable sources of information: http://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2016/12/20-1
- Students are unprepared for determining fact from fiction: http://hechingerreport.org/teens-learned-internet-may-shock/
- Fortunately, literacy training does help: http://www.civicsurvey.org/publications/263
- Understanding bias, everyone has some: http://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2017/1/3-1
- Just correcting facts doesn't work: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/nyhan-reifler.pdf
- Online social media companies are mixed about fact-checking, so we must do it. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/opinion/online-and-scared.html
- Facts alone don’t change our minds: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds
Other resources
- A funny comic about backfire effect: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe
- An interesting old example of "fake" news: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-mistranslated-word-led-to-some-of-the-best-fake-news-of-the-20th-century/