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Crash Course Media Literacy

In 12 episodes, Jay Smooth teaches you Media Literacy! Based on an introductory college level curriculum, this series takes you through the history and psychology of media and gives you the skills to become more media savvy. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

* Describe media literacy as a skill and its development over time

* Understand the positive and negative effects of media on audiences

* Explain how media regulations and policies affect media producers

* Create many forms of media in an informed way

Keywords:: Information literacy Mass media Media literacy
Resource Type:: Video

Video

Crash Course Navigating Digital Information

In 10 episodes, John Green will teach you how to navigate the internet! We’ve partnered with MediaWise, The Poynter Institute, and The Stanford History Education Group to develop this curriculum of hands-on skills to help you evaluate the information you read online. By the end of this course, you will be able to:

* Examine information using the same skills and questions as fact-checkers

* Read laterally to learn more about the authority and perspective of sources

* Evaluate different types of evidence, from videos to infographics

* Understand how search engines and social media feeds work

* Break bad internet habits like impatience and passivity, and build better ones

Keywords:: Information literacy Human-computer interaction Study skills
Resource Type:: Video

e-book

Be Credible

The primary audience for this book starts with students in Journalism 302: Infomania, a course we teach at the University of Kansas. When they take this class, these students usually are in their second or third semesters in the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications. They have varied career aspirations. A few of them want to be “traditional” journalists, writing for online news sites, magazines, or newspapers. Some of them want to be broadcast journalists. Many of them want to work in strategic communications, which encompasses public relations, advertising, marketing, and related fields.

Subjects:: Journalism and Communication
Keywords:: Information literacy Textbooks
Resource Type:: e-book

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What is your usual practices to kick-start the lesson plan?

In this exercise, a team of students listed out a number of tasks that they have to complete when preparing the lesson plan. Which of the following task will be listed as the top priority on your to-do list? Will you start searching at this moment?

Keywords:: Lesson planning Teaching Information literacy
Resource Type:: Others

Others

What type of information sources is needed to fulfill a specific information need

In this game, you need to match the types of information sources with the corresponding information needs.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Information resources Social sciences -- Research Information literacy
Resource Type:: Others

Video

What kind of information sources are needed to answer the sub-questions

In this video, two students are discussing the types of information are needed to answer the sub-questions. In their conversation, various type of information, including manuscripts, diaries and autobiographies, audio recordings and videos, original art works, letter patents, conference papers, books, government publications, critical analysis and review, journal articles, and handbooks.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Information resources Social sciences -- Research Information literacy
Resource Type:: Video

Others

What kinds of information resources can help you at different stages

In this game, learners are required to put the information that can support the work in different research stages.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Research -- Methodology Information literacy Information resources
Resource Type:: Others

Others

Matching various scientific content types with their intended purpose

In this matching game, learners are required to match various scientific content types, for example, books, literature review articles, encyclopedia entry, conference proceedings, scholarly journal articles, government documents, reference books, technical reports, with their intended purpose.