Teaching social information literacy to undergraduates

Teaching social information literacy to undergraduates

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  Teaching Social Information Literacyto Undergraduates Carl S. Hess MLA Annual Conference October 4, 2013
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  ISLT 1111 • Weeklyfor-credit research skills and information use class at the University of Missouri • Grew out of a library-use instruction course • Week 15: Social Media • Why?
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  Why Teach SocialMedia with Information Literacy • Your students get a lot of information through social media • Bring information literacy to passive information behavior • Opportunity to bring in visual literacy • Social structures are increasingly being brought into all sorts of information seeking tools
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  Impediments to Teaching
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  Fear of the DigitalNative
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  Don’t Fear theDigital Native • Actual comfort levels of students with social technology will rely on a variety of factors1 • Just because they know how to use something does not mean they know how to use it critically or effectively2 1) Bennett, S., Maton, K., (2011). Intellectual field or faith-based religion: Moving on from the idea of "digital natives". In M. Thomas (Ed.), Deconstructing digital natives (pp. 169-185). New York: Routledge. 2) Combes, B. (2009). Digital natives or digital refugees? Why we have failed gen Y? International Association of School Librarianship.Selected Papers from the 38th Annual Conference, , 1-12. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/236051593?accountid=14576
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  Platform Fragmentation • Everyonehas a Facebook profile and they use it the most, but teen users increasingly dislike it • After that, there is a variety of different sites and services that are used • Twitter clear number 2 and is growing among teens (used by 24%, up from 16% in 2011) • What they use varies a lot by different socio-economic factors (African Americans more likely to use Twitter, women more likely to use Pinterest, etc.) • Solution: create lesson that could apply across platforms Duggan, M., & Brenner, J. (2013, February 14). The demographics of social media users — 2012. Retrieved from Pew Internet website: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Social-media-users/The-State-of-Social-Media-Users/Overview.aspx Madden, M., Lenhart, A., Cortesi, S., Gasser, U., Duggan, M., Smith, A. , & Beaton, M. (2013, May 21). Teens, social media, and privacy. Retrieved from Pew Internet website: http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Teens-Social-Media-And-Privacy/Summary-of- Findings/Teens-Social-Media-and-Privacy.aspx
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  What to Teach(and How)
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  Images: Do You BelieveYour Eyes?
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  Class Activity: #HurricaneSandy LinkedInpage linked to on her Twitter account says she lives in Kansas City and works in public relations. Does not claim to have taken the picture herself. Madrigal, A. C. (2012, October 29). Sorting the real Sandy photos from the fakes. The Atlantic. Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com/
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  Posted by areporter for NBC New York who covers New Jersey. Account is not verified, but his official page on NBC New York’s website links to this account.
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  Sent from averified account for National Public Radio.
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  Taken by theowner of a painting service. The painting service is based in New York, and the Twitter account gives a location in Brooklyn. Claims to have taken the picture himself.
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  Publish, Then Filter •Tendency to post things and let the online community point out errors • Corrections happen later— what happens when you miss them? • Good to pivot to after #HurricaneSandy • What happens when it’s less benign? Shirky, C. (2008). Publish, then filter. In Here comes everybody: The power of organizing without organizations (pp. 81-108). New York: Penguin Press.
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  Where else couldyou add social?
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  Q&A • Want tochat some more? • [email protected] • Twitter: @CarlSHess • www.slideshare.net/carlstephenhess