A Spark of Information Literacy

Greetings and Welcome to another Potentially Useful episode of the TCAPSLoop Podcast, your guide to navigating the 5 pillars of Information Literacy! We'll discuss some tools for decoding fake news and sleuthing through biased sources, we're here to Spark the surfing skills needed to separate fact from fiction.

Moment of Zen: A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. ― Cordell Hull

 

The Rundown:

Things we need to infuse in our schools:

 

Digital Literacy - Digital literacy aims to teach students how to use information and communications technologies effectively, responsibly, and ethically. It’s how we interact and live in a digital world

News Literacy - News literacy is focused on helping students understand the role that credible information and a free press play in their lives and in a robust democracy, and seeks to help them determine the credibility of news and other information. 

Media Literacy - Media literacy generally refers to a broad discipline that seeks to teach students how to access, analyze, evaluate, create and take action using all forms of communication (including entertainment media). (Join the movement — News Literacy Project) 

AI Literacy - AI Literacy, Explained.pdf 

Information Literacy -  Information literacy is aligned with library sciences and seeks to help students find, evaluate, and use information effectively. It’s all of the above!

It’s important to teach kids HOW to think, not what to think. It all comes down to thinking critically about what you’re consuming. 

How can we do this in the classroom?

Here are some great resources discussed in the pod:

Common Sense Media

News Literacy Project

aiEDU

 

This month we are “Giving some love to #InfoLit”. Check out these Daily Sparks for your classrooms. We hope it sparks this style of learning.

Introduction Document: TCAPS Daily Sparks - February 2024 - Giving some Love to #InfoLit 

Daily Sparks: Daily Sparks February 2024 - for Information Literacy 

 

Tech Tool of the Week

https://www.youtube.com/@MediaWise

 

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Hosts: Danelle Brostrom, Larry Burden

Um and Ramble Editing: Larry Burden

 

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