Howard Rheingold on New Literacies – Crap Detection
This is a long video but worth watching. Howard Rheingold talks about literacy, information literacy, digital literacy and critical thinking. One of the things that stands out to me is he borrows the term “crap detection” from Ernest Hemingway. So while he is applying it to the internet the importance of critical thinking has been around long before the internet. It is not a new skill, but rather an old skill being applies to a new medium.
Read more
- Crap Detection 101
- The CRAP Test
- The Essential Skill of Crap Detecting
- Bulls#@t and the Art of Crap-Detection
Video from Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy
Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy from Knight Foundation on Vimeo.
In October 2009 the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy released its report. The report itself is over 100 pages and worth reading. It is available to download as a pdf or to read online. If you just want the bottom line, you can see just the recommendations it makes or the ones that especially pertain to libraries.
Transliteracy is 3D
Since posting the Libraries and Transliteracy slideshow I’ve been asked many times to define transliteracy. Its a slippery term, people often confuse it with digital literacy or technology literacy. Sometimes I’m not sure I even have a good grasp on the concept. So a colleague and I sat out to hash out the details, here is what we came up with.
In collaboration with Brian Hulsey
Special thanks to Sue Thomas and Tom Ipri for their input & approval.
If you’d like to learn about libraries and transilteracy please visit my Transliteracy page
If you’d like to know more about transliteracy in general please visit transliteracy.com and follow the conference on February 9th.
My second session of the day – Information Literacy: using technology to reach and teach students
Information literacy
synchronous & asynchronous communication
online tutorial
camtasia to record screen & add audio
library instructional videos
library blog – rss feed to libraries page
meebo for IM service
on ground instructions
nilrc.org/imlis/default.asp _ NILRC information literacy toolkit
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- What is Transliteracy?I attempt to answer some questions about transliteracy including what is it, in my Librarian by Day blog post – Defining Transliteracy I have been asked this question many times by librarians so I am way overdue for this post. Most recently I was asked “….are librarians the people best equipped to define and interpret transliteracy (as opposed [...] […]Bobbi Newman
- Digital Literacy Skills Essential to Closing Broadband Gap #knightcommThe Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy sites the Broadband Adoption and Use in America (pdf) report released by the Federal Communications Commission in Digital Literacy Skills Essential to Closing Broadband Gap when emphasising the importance and need for digital literacy The survey findings reinforce the growing body o […]Bobbi Newman
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