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Metaliterate learning for the post-truth world

Title

Metaliterate learning for the post-truth world / edited by Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson ; foreword by Troy A. Swanson.

Format

Book

Published

Chicago : ALA Neal-Schuman, 2019. ©2019

Description

xxvi, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other contributors

Mackey, Thomas P., editor. Jacobson, Trudi E., 1957- editor. Swanson, Troy A., author of foreword.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Empowering metaliterate learners for the post-truth world / Thomas P. Mackey
• The materiality of metaliteracy: a documentary approach and perspective for information and literacy practices in the post-truth era / Marc Kosciejew
• Inoculation theory and the metaliterate learner / Josh Compton
• Constructing scientific literacy through metaliteracy: implications for learning in a post-truth world / Allison B. Brungard and Kristin Klucevsek
• When stories and pictures lie together - and you do not even know it / Thomas Palmer
• Teaching and learning with metaliterate LIS professionals / Nicole A. Cooke and Rachel M. Magee
• First, teach students to be wrong / Allison Hosier
• Fictional affect and metaliterate learning through genre / Jaclyn Partyka
• Poetic ethnography and metaliteracy: empowering voices in a hybrid theater arts course / Kimmika L.H. Williams-Witherspoon.

Summary

Metaliteracy, Jacobson and Mackey's revolutionary framework for information literacy, is especially well suited as a tool for ensuring that learners can successfully navigate the proliferation of fake news, questionable content, and outright denialism of facts in today's information morass. Indeed, it is starkly evident that the competencies, knowledge, and personal attributes specific to metaliterate individuals are critical; digital literacy and traditional conceptions of information literacy are insufficient for the significant challenges we currently face. This book examines the newest version of the Metaliteracy Goals and Learning Objectives, including the four domains of metaliterate learning, as well as the relationship between metaliteracy and the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Featuring contributions from a variety of information literacy instructors, educators, librarians, and faculty, the chapters in this book: discuss the social, political, and ethical dimensions of information creation, distribution, and use; use case studies to demonstrate how metaliteracy guides learners to read online information with a critical eye, apply metacognitive thinking to the consumption of all information, and make purposeful and responsible contributions to the social media ecosystem as active participants; examine when images are taken out of context and paired with misleading text, a prevalent feature of the misinformation frequently shared via social media; and situates metaliteracy in such contexts such as the academic library, a science class, fiction writing, digital storytelling, and a theater arts course. Metaliteracy is a powerful model for preparing learners to be responsible participants in today's divisive information environment, and this book showcases several teaching and learning practices that have already proven effective.

Subject headings

Information literacy--Study and teaching (Higher) Media literacy--Study and teaching (Higher) Critical thinking--Study and teaching (Higher) Information behavior. Information technology--Moral and ethical aspects. Social media--Moral and ethical aspects. Metacognition.

ISBN

9780838917763 paperback alkaline paper 0838917763 paperback alkaline paper 9780838918388 electronic book 9780838918395 electronic book 9780838918401 electronic book