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Educating for a Challenging Future: Political Literacy for Scottish Schools
By Milcop |
November 19, 2024
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...
New MILCOP website launched
By Milcop |
October 22, 2024
The Scotland’s Media and Information Literacy Community of Practice (MILCOP) have launched this new website to support the recently renamed community. This website will contain an archive of old posts from the previous Right Information website as well as news...
Ofcom Media Literacy Strategy
By Milcop |
October 22, 2024
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...
Information, Political, Digital and Ethical Literacy in Education
By Milcop |
October 22, 2024
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...
Information Literacy Group and CILIP join forces to launch Media and Information Literacy Alliance
By Milcop |
July 21, 2021
The Information Literacy Group and CILIP have announced a joint initiative to launch a new cross-sector Media and Information Literacy Alliance (http://www.mila.org.uk), with the aim of “helping people be happier, healthier, safer and better-informed in their online lives”. Chair of...
LIBRARIES ARE ESSENTIAL CAMPAIGN
By Milcop |
February 19, 2021
Hello, We on the MDGS Committee have been asked to share details of the campaign that CILIPS are running in advance of the Scottish Parliament elections in May with our members and followers. This is about combatting misinformation, which is...
Digital Proxies Workshops – Centre for Social Informatics – Napier University
By Milcop |
January 28, 2021
Registrations are now open for workshops on how information workers act as ‘digital proxies’. Digital proxies, for this research, are those who access online systems on behalf of others to help their clients – with their permission, possibly informally. For...
Digital inclusion in the UK – new report from Lloyds Bank
By Milcop |
May 27, 2020
What does the Lloyds Bank UK Consumer Digital Index 2020 tell us about digital inclusion? Blog post from SCVO talking about the report which gives an overview of the digital inclusion landscape in the UK. Originally added by Fiona Laing
The Finnish approach to teaching IL and the fight against fake news
By Milcop |
February 5, 2020
There is an excellent article in The Guardian by Jon Henley, published 29th January 2020. It explores how Finland decided to tackle the problem of misinformation, disinformation and malinformation (terms that are preferred over “fake news”). Have a wee look...
Informed societies: why information literacy matters for citizenship, participation and democracy edited by Stéphane Goldstein
By Milcop |
January 15, 2020
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...