Information Literacy
Information Literacy
🔎 Telling information from misinformation, judging websites, identifying fake news, questioning myths, and working through the SCONUL Seven Pillars.
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Information literacy is one of the three literacies in the Information, Media, and Technology Skills strand of the 21st Century Skills Framework.
Finding, evaluating, managing, and using information responsibly as a 21st-century skill.
A clear comparison of information, misinformation, and disinformation, with examples.
Classroom strategies for spotting fake news, clickbait, bias, and misleading images.
Judging whether online information is trustworthy, using authority, accuracy, and the CRAAP test.
Judging a website as an artifact: usability, coverage, design, privacy, and security.
What purposeful browsing is, and why searching with a clear goal beats random browsing.
Planning a lesson by starting from the objective and tying every resource back to it.
Five short worked examples of teachers using purposeful browsing to plan lessons.
Four popular myths about teaching and edtech, and a more accurate statement for each.
A routine for testing any claim about teaching before you act on it.
Three teaching claims research has refuted, from learning styles to brain-based learning.
An overview of the SCONUL model: Identify, Scope, Plan, Gather, Evaluate, Manage, and Present.
The history of the model, from its 1999 origin to the 2011 Core Model update.
The first pillar: recognizing an information need before searching for sources.
The second pillar: deciding what kinds of information a task needs.
The third pillar: building a search strategy with keywords, source types, and tools.
The fourth pillar: finding, accessing, and recording information responsibly.
The fifth pillar: judging information quality, reliability, evidence, and bias.
The sixth pillar: organizing information, citing sources, and avoiding plagiarism.
The seventh pillar: communicating information clearly, ethically, and effectively.
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