In my adolescence I began a journey of information literacy, questioning everything fed to me. Someone who seemed to always tell the truth, with integrity and compassion, was Dan Rather.
He was on the TV a lot when I was a kid. When he retired I was sad. But he’s still here, delivering the goods. And I’m grateful for that.
On the #enshitification of Google, but not much many of us can do. For one, I can't just write a check to something like Kagi for my search needs (and I highly doubt my library would pony up for it either). Will just have to keep looking for options, but it gets harder. And not only does the company not care, very often my brethren #librarians don't care either.
My paper from the European Conference on Information Literacy has been published!! 🥳
'Approaches to exploring the information worlds of women engineering students', free to read until the end of February at this link: https://rdcu.be/dxI05
Bit of serendipity. Finished watching webinar on topic of #InformationLiteracy and teaching about misinformation/disinformation. Interesting, some good food for thought. A bit later, checking our new books, we got a book on misinformation. Yes, I checked the book out for #TBR.
This article is a great assignment for #InformationLiteracy class:
*Is all knowledge available for free online?
*What did the author need beyond physical access to resources?
*How can a history become lost?
*What is the role of social networks in search?
*Which people or institutions might have the information you seek?
*Why are archives important? What are the challenges of using them?
*How does one question become many?
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”
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.
At the @uwcip, we’re pleased to be here on Mastodon and plan to share and boost news and insights from our team at UW Seattle plus researchers and communities we collaborate with across Washington state, the United States, and beyond.