ORCID
Winn W. Wasson 0000-0001-5117-6813
Document Type
Presentation
Date
8-4-2020
Keywords
information literacy, misinformation, media literacy
Language
English
Disciplines
Library and Information Science
Description/Abstract
In January 2019, I taught a condensed credit-bearing media literacy course for undergraduates based on the ACRL Frame, “Information Creation as Process”. My main learning objective was to teach students to recognize accurate information, misinformation, and disinformation in the news and on social media, not by naming them as such, but by: 1) exposing students to the process through which news goes from field observations to a published or broadcast story, and 2) exploring current social and cognitive psychology research on how humans evaluate whether to believe the information they consume. The course ended with a discussion of healthy information consumption habits. I incorporated guest-speaker presentations and field trips, in which students interacted with practitioners and researchers in the fields of journalism, politics, and psychology. For a final project, students each created a media product exploring a topic of their choice related to misinformation and disinformation in news media.
Recommended Citation
Wasson, Winn W., "(Mis)Information Creation as a Process: A Method for Teaching Media Literacy by Applying an ACRL Framework Frame" (2020). Libraries' and Librarians' Publications. 200.
https://surface.syr.edu/sul/200
Source
submission
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Additional Information
Lightning talk presented online at the 2020 SAGE Critical Thinking Bootcamp.