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These materials were created to complement the "Bot or Not?" learning activity described in "Chapter 12: Fact-Checking Viral Trends for News Writers," in Teaching About Fake News: Lesson Plans for Different Disciplines and Audiences (2021). Students are to divide into groups, take a tweet provided by the instructor (samples are included in the link), and use evaluative methods introduced in the session to determine the veracity and newsworthiness of both the Twitter account and the tweet itself.
Posted on July 27, 2021
Contributor: Elizabeth Downey
Resource Type(s): Slide Deck
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Research as Inquiry
This PowerPoint and associated learning activity accompany "Chapter 20: Mediated Lives: A Cultural Studies Perspective to Discussing “Fake-News” with First-Year College Students" in Teaching About Fake News: Lesson Plans for Diverse Disciplines and Audiences (2021). In this lesson, students learn about mediation, fake news, and how internet content is catered to specific demographics of social media users. In the activity to follow, students create their own clickbait headlines for multiple imagined audiences.
Posted on July 23, 2021
Contributor: Jacob Herrmann
Resource Type(s): Slide Deck
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value
A toolkit with various instructional materials to teach media and news literacy. Includes an online activity "Fairness and Blanace" where students watch a short video on journalistic standards and answer discussion questions. Then, students can take one or both interactive tutorials on "Lateral Reading" with a focus on fact-checking and/or "Evaluating Information" based on an information need. Also includes a video on the "Anatomy of a News Website" with reflective questions and in-class assignment ideas for librarians or instructors.
Posted on June 9, 2021
Contributor: Tessa Withorn
Resource Type(s): Assignment Prompt, Learning Object, Lesson Plan, Tutorial
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process
A step-by-step lesson plan for an activity that addresses three frameworks and produces an asset, the infographic, the student-creators can use again, if they wish. It alerts students to authoritative data from the U.S. Census bureau. It can be useful for a one-shot session in the IL101 classroom or a library workshop introduction to visual literacy and presentation of data.
Posted on May 14, 2021
Contributor: Stella Herzig
Resource Type(s): Lesson Plan
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry
Toolkit for teaching all about peer review through a disciplinary and critical information literacy lens. Includes a video, discussion questions, three interactive tutorials for various disciplines, and assignment ideas.
Posted on April 29, 2021
Contributor: Tessa Withorn
Resource Type(s): Learning Object, Research Guide, Tutorial
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process
Infographic on the parts of an research article in the arts and humanities. Includes article information, abstract, body of the article, and references. Created by Tessa Withorn and Dana Ospina at California State University Dominguez Hills.
Posted on April 29, 2021
Contributor: Tessa Withorn
Resource Type(s): Learning Object
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Creation as Process
Infographic describing the parts of a research article in the sciences and social scienes, including the article information abstract, introduction or literature review, meths, results, discussion, and references.
Posted on April 29, 2021
Contributor: Tessa Withorn
Resource Type(s): Learning Object
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Creation as Process
Background: Students will be working in groups on a research paper about the environmental health impact of a natural disaster (e.g. Hurricane Katrina, Love Canal, 9/11 attacks and first responders, etc.). They must use at least 3 peer-reviewed sources, but their paper must also address the who, what, when, where, and why of the event. They are also asked to address environmental justice and discuss the long-term environmental consequences of the event.Learning Outcomes:After the session, students will be able to:Describe the information lifecycle around a natural disaster/eventUse advanced...
Posted on April 27, 2021
Contributor: Tessa Withorn
Resource Type(s): Lesson Plan
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Creation as Process
This infographic guide on the literature review process help researchers decide where to search, how to search, how to organize the search process and increase the productivity, and how evaluate scholarly articles. Altough the Guide is created to meet the needs of public administration research, the approaches can be used by other disicplines as well.
Posted on April 24, 2021
Contributor: Grace Liu
Resource Type(s): Research Guide
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Creation as Process, Searching as Strategic Exploration
In this module, students will be introduced to a variety of scholarly sources that are available for research and information needs.
Posted on April 13, 2021
Contributor: UMKC Research Essentials
Resource Type(s): Tutorial
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Creation as Process