As we head into the new school year I thought it might be good to start some discussions to get ourselves back into learning mode. I will leave this one up during September but please feel free to share your thoughts now.
Here is the link https://blog.tieonline.com/critical-thinking-in-an-age-of-digital-citizenship-has-never-been-so-important/
I know a lot of what is discussed in this article is what school librarians teach already. Let's think about how we can link some of this within our own practice or help you discuss this with your teachers.
Thank you Elizabeth for sharing this blog. Right now we are developing the scope and sequence for the library and digital citizenship is the core. This article is helpful for IB DP TOK students for discussion and reflection. The article is a good example when we teach Ethics and Integrity. Information literacy plays vital role when as Librarian's we are introducing students different sources of information.
Thanks again for sharing a thought provoking blog.
Thanks for this article Elizabeth, I managed to avoid/miss all the news this summer and I am sure I was better for it. I do not adovcate burying your head in the sand but sometimes a break is necessary and it feels asthough missing this storm was a good thing.
I have a permenamt display in the library with Fran Lebowitz's quote as the starting point. 'Think before you speak, read before you think' I fill the display with books that I have bought to make students think - nothing that is in the normal run of their reading but on a very wide range of subjects.
I will be picking up a very interesting piece of work that I began at the very end of term working with a group of sixth form students who are very worried about the Palestinian situation and are asking school to react to condem Isreal's action. Our school is understandably cautious, lacking government guidance and aiming to avoid polotical statements. I offered to work with them to support their reseach, to discuss what information sources they are using, looking at bias, asking them to look at counter arguments, to consider the level of general understanding in their colleagues and how they can best present a balanced argument which has a strong basis in research and also demonstrates their level of concern. I think it is in these small scale pieces of work that I can demonstrate to the students and my colleages what I can do to support the spread of misinformation.