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Academic research articles have a structure and language that is different from our other reading materials such as textbooks. This lesson can help students new to academic research understand these differences and learn strategies for finding information in such articles.
Posted on August 9, 2021
Contributor: New Literacies Alliance
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assessment Material, Learning Object, Professional Development Material, Tutorial
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Searching as Strategic Exploration
A learning activity PowerPoint about appropriation or re-use of art history images to create memes, and how knowledge about the original artwork in context can provide a deeper understanding of the people and society that created the work.
Posted on August 6, 2021
Contributor: Rebecca Barham
Resource Type(s): Activity, Instruction Program Material, Learning Object, Lesson Plan
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Research as Inquiry
Upon studying the mixed history between photographic documentation and photographic reality, students will create their own meme.
Posted on August 2, 2021
Contributor: Amy Kim
Resource Type(s): Lesson Plan
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Framework as a Whole
PowerPoint that accompanies Chapter 21: Teaching Students to Analyze and Interpret Historical Propaganda by Amy E. Bush, Christine Cheng, University of California, Davis, and Alesia M. McManus, University of California, Davis.
Posted on July 30, 2021
Contributor: Christine Cheng
Resource Type(s): Slide Deck
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual
A slide presentation to accompany the learning activity from the chapter "Senior Citizens, Digital Citizens: Improving Information Consumption in Older Adults" in Teaching about Fake News: Lesson Plans for Different Disciplines and Audiences. This lesson demonstrates some of the most common types of misinformation senior citizens may encounter using social media and evaluation techniques to prevent sharing with others.
Posted on July 30, 2021
Contributor: Nicole Thomas
Resource Type(s): Slide Deck
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Searching as Strategic Exploration
These slides are designed to accompany "Countering Fake News with Collaborative Learning: Engaging Writing Center Tutors in Information Literacy Instruction, a chapter in the ACRL book Teaching About Fake News.
Posted on July 29, 2021
Contributor: Lori Jacobson
Resource Type(s): Slide Deck
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Scholarship as Conversation, Searching as Strategic Exploration
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
Slide deck for chapter "Establishing the Fake News-Pseudoscience Connection in a Workshop for Graduate Students"
Posted on July 26, 2021
Contributor: Brian Quinn
Resource Type(s): Slide Deck
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Framework as a Whole
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
For our classes on mis/disinformation, we chose to focus on having students analyze memes that present some sort of “factual” information. So, think memes with text on them that purport to give information to the reader. We do our best to choose memes that are not political in any way. We have students first look critically at the meme to suss out the elements of authority, motivation, content, potential for fact-checking, and more. What follows is a breakdown of our assignment.
Posted on July 22, 2021
Contributor: Hubert Womack
Resource Type(s): Slide Deck
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Framework as a Whole