Educating for a Challenging Future: Political Literacy for Scottish Schools

In October, Dr Huw Davies gave one of the most inspiring webinars I’ve attended. It wasn’t inspiring because Huw told the audience about good things. Far from it: he spoke about the damage the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories is doing, especially to young people. A revised version of Huw’s slides is available here.

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Information, Political, Digital and Ethical Literacy in Education

CILIPS and other partners have been reaching out to engage with other work that could be linked to media and information literacy. Recently a very popular webinar was held with Dr Huw Davies, who is currently undertaking a project alongside Education Scotland aimed at equipping teachers and young learners across Scotland with the capacity to

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Informed societies: why information literacy matters for citizenship, participation and democracy edited by Stéphane Goldstein

Hello, You might be interested in the recently-published book edited by Stéphane Goldstein on Informed societies: why information literacy matters for citizenship, participation and democracy. There are excellent chapters written by three members of the Information Literacy Community of Practice for Scotland: John Crawford, Bill Johnston, Konstantina (Dina) Martzoukou. Others equally exciting by Geoff Walton,

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Conceptualising the Digital University: The Intersection of Policy, Pedagogy and Practice by Bill Johnston, Sheila MacNeill & Keith Smyth

I’m delighted to announce an interesting new book, highly recommended for your library collection. “Defines the ‘digital university’ according to a more holistic and integrated account. Analyses how technology can redefine the concept of the university and extend higher education as a public good. Examines the challenges, possibilities and opportunities that digital technology and practice bring to

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How to combat misinformation and disinformation

As we go into a new year, we thought we’d remind ourselves of a some useful information on how to combat misinformation and ‘fake news’. Please add to this list as you wish. Sheila Webber’s blog http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2018/12/who-is-fact-checking-for.html Fake News libguide is here https://libguides.lsbu.ac.uk/fakenews/home We will add more material to it as we find it.  Any suggestions as to what could or

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Lifelong Learning: how music, language and art make you smarter

Thanks to Lisa Jenkins for contacting me about graphics she helped create about the benefits of lifelong learning through music and language learning. I like the look of the graphics as they get the message over well and I also liked the visual image of: Fresh information acts as a protein shake, forging new pathways

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