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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Ofcom Media Literacy Strategy

Ofcom has released its three-year media literacy strategy, outlining its focus under the Online Safety Act 2023. The strategy aims to increase public understanding of online safety and protection. The strategy emphasises that media literacy is a shared responsibility and it calls for collaboration among online platforms, parents, educators, third-sector organisations, healthcare providers, child professionals,

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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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Critical Literacy for Information Professionals

This new book explores critical literacy theory and provides practical guidance to how it can be taught and applied in libraries. The approach taken in critical literacy is not to read texts in isolation, but to develop an understanding of the cultural, ideological and sociolinguistic contexts in which they are created and read. The book

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