Teaching Social Information Literacy to Undergraduates

Hess, Carl S. Teaching Social Information Literacy to Undergraduates., 2013 . In Missouri Library Association Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO (US), 4 October 2013. (Unpublished) [Presentation]

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This session will present methods for teaching undergraduates new literacies relating to social content as well as updating older literacies for a social context. Social media has been proclaimed by some to be the AP Wire service of the current generation, yet few students critically engage with the information they are presented online. They do not consider the quality of the information, nor how it reaches them. In this session, I will discuss core concepts students will need to evaluate social information and how these differ with print and even other aspects of the web, as well as techniques I've found effective in relating these concepts. The presentation will also discuss how issues such as copyright are affected by social networking and social media as well as how these can be best presented to students.

Item type:	Presentation
Keywords:	social media, information literacy, digital literacy, new literacies, visual literacy, library instruction, critical thinking, evaluation
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information > BC. Information in society. C. Users, literacy and reading. D. Libraries as physical collections. > DD. Academic libraries.
Depositing user:	Mr. Carl Hess
Date deposited:	14 Nov 2013 07:54
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:29
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/20661

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