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Be Media Smart: A National Media Literacy Campaign For Ireland, Philip Russell Dec 2019

Be Media Smart: A National Media Literacy Campaign For Ireland, Philip Russell

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‘Be Media Smart’ is an Irish public awareness campaign calling on people of all ages to ‘Be Media Smart’ and ‘Stop, Think, and Check’ that information they see, read or hear across any media platform is accurate and reliable. This national media literacy campaign was aimed at enhancing people’s understanding of, and engagement with, media, while also empowering them with the skills to evaluate content across all platforms.


Media Literacy Ireland And The Be Media Smart Campaign, Philip Russell Oct 2019

Media Literacy Ireland And The Be Media Smart Campaign, Philip Russell

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‘Be Media Smart’ is an Irish public awareness campaign calling on people of all ages to ‘Be Media Smart’ and ‘Stop, Think, and Check’ that information they see, read or hear across any media platform is accurate and reliable. This national media literacy campaign was aimed at enhancing people’s understanding of, and engagement with, media, while also empowering them with the skills to evaluate content across all platforms.


The Impact Of The Professional Development Framework On Dit’S Information Literacy Programme, Allison Kavanagh Jan 2019

The Impact Of The Professional Development Framework On Dit’S Information Literacy Programme, Allison Kavanagh

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This chapter presents a case study of the influence engaging with the Professional Development Framework (PDF) has had on the Information Literacy (IL) programme in a Library of the Technological University Dublin (DIT), since 1 January 2019 the City Campus of Technological University Dublin. The PDF was developed by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. For over a decade (2008-2018), a team of DIT library staff has used a ‘menu’ of one-hour classes to deliver its IL programme in a standardised way. Participation by some team members in L2L (Librarians Learning to Support …