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Beyond Fact-Checking: 5 Things Schools Should Do To Foster News Literacy, Seth Ashley
Beyond Fact-Checking: 5 Things Schools Should Do To Foster News Literacy, Seth Ashley
Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations
When it comes to news literacy, schools often emphasize fact-checking and hoax-spotting. But as I argue in my new book, schools must go deeper with how they teach the subject if they want to help students thrive in a democratic society.
As a new poll shows that Americans struggle to know if the information they find online is true, news literacy remains essential in student education.
Separating fact from fiction is a vital skill for civic engagement, but students can be good fact-checkers only if they have a broader understanding of how news and information are produced and consumed in …
Be An Ally For Accessibility: Tips For All Librarians, Shawn Mccann, Rebeca Peacock
Be An Ally For Accessibility: Tips For All Librarians, Shawn Mccann, Rebeca Peacock
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
Accessibility is a concern for librarians in digital as well as physical spaces, and we have a responsibility to uphold the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). However, regardless of legal requirements, librarians endeavour to make content available to everyone. People with disabilities are no exception. While some of the more complex accessibility issues should be left to instructional technologists and web developers, there are plenty of things that anyone posting content online can do to increase content accessibility. Here are five tips that we have found useful for creating guides, posting handouts in our Learning Management System (LMS), building online …
Pogil Beyond Stem, Sue Joyner Guillaud, Margie Ruppel
Pogil Beyond Stem, Sue Joyner Guillaud, Margie Ruppel
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
This chapter focuses on POGIL's extension and application in non-science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, building on the foundations of POGIL previously discussed in this book. The theory, process, guided inquiry, and evidence of student success are applicable to non-STEM disciplines; however, each discipline may require a few adjustments in content and delivery. Many non-STEM disciplines rely heavily on process skills, which are paramount to the POGIL process. Details on applications to the fields of second language (L2) learning and information literacy serve as case studies, with evidence of learning enhancement and similar foundational learning theories.