1. My own work The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies (book, pay what you want/can) The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies (video, TEDx Warwick) A Brief History of Web Literacy and its Future Potential (blog post, DML Central) Curate or Be Curated: Why Our Information Environment is Crucial to a Flourishing Democracy, Civil Society (blog post, DML Central) Reclaiming the Web for the Next Generation (blog post, DML Central) Digital Literacy, Identity and a Domain of One’s Own (blog post, DML Central) What does it mean to be a digitally literate school leader? (blog post, Literaci.es) Can digital literacy be deconstructed into learnable units? (blog post, Literaci.es) Digital Literacy is about power (blog post, Literaci.es) Digital literacies have a civic element (blog post, Literaci.es) 2. Other links/resources Everything is Broken (blog post, Quinn Norton, The Message) Facebook’s Secret Mood Experiment and the Challenges of Living Online (blog post, Ian O'Byrne) Digital literacy and democracy (blog post, Helen Beetham) How to Increase Our Digital Literacy Literacy (blog post, Bonnie Stachowiak, Teaching in Higher Ed) Yes, Digital Literacy. But Which One? (blog post, Mike Caulfield) ‘Fake news’: the best thing that’s happened to journalism (blog post, Charlie Beckett, LSE Polis) Did Media Literacy Backfire? (blog post, danah boyd, Data & Society: Points) According to Snopes, Fake News Is Not the Problem (blog post, Jessi Hempel, Backchannel) Bots aren’t spreading fake news on Facebook; humans are (blog post, Joon Ian Wong, Quartz) Is ‘fake news’ a fake problem? (Jacob L. Nelson, Columbia Journalism Review)
This blog post has gotten more readers than anything else on my blog and relates to information literacy - https://lisahinchliffe.com/2016/06/19/information-literacy-constellation/ - but it's very "inside baseball" for the academic library community as we worked through a major policy change in ACRL.
This is a more scholarly-ish piece from 2006 and not so much on the digital literacy/fake news angle but on how newspapers are a resource for teaching global perspectives and developing media literacy - "Digital News: Key to Global Literacy and Information Literacy Education (https://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla72/papers/079-Hinchliffe_Schmitz-en.pdf).
Finally, this editorial I wrote also brings in the idea of mindset - which is part of (to me) what we need to inculcate in students - Information Literacy as a Way of Life (https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/94855).
We created a teaching kit that we want to share and get feedback on as a companion to our article, Supremo’s Cause Tidal Waves—True or False? Our news literacy program challenges fourth graders to find out (School Library Journal).
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