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(Mis)Information Creation As A Process: A Method For Teaching Media Literacy By Applying An Acrl Framework Frame, Winn W. Wasson
(Mis)Information Creation As A Process: A Method For Teaching Media Literacy By Applying An Acrl Framework Frame, Winn W. Wasson
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In January 2019, I taught a condensed credit-bearing media literacy course for undergraduates based on the ACRL Frame, “Information Creation as Process”. My main learning objective was to teach students to recognize accurate information, misinformation, and disinformation in the news and on social media, not by naming them as such, but by: 1) exposing students to the process through which news goes from field observations to a published or broadcast story, and 2) exploring current social and cognitive psychology research on how humans evaluate whether to believe the information they consume. The course ended with a discussion of healthy information …