The purpose of this activity is to prove (or disprove) the validity of the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus and the website affirming it. She was very concerned, because they ran an information literacy segment in classes and the students did well enough on the exercises, but when paper time came they were literally using sites that looked like this: She was just gobsmacked by it.

As the story goes, this creature is really where Haggis comes from. She didn’t want to say — “Look, just don’t use the internet, OK?” — but that was what she felt like after seeing this. With no common touchpoints, we might as well be speaking a different language. Those of you who think its just too fantastic to believe can see for yourself: Save the Haggis! Now of course if you go to read his work you’ll see that it is written in Scottish, well to be more accurate Scottish English I believe, as the real Scottish language in fact Gaelic. Those of you who think its just too fantastic to believe can see for yourself: Save the Haggis! No, it’s because you know that Snopes is historically a good site to resolve hoaxes. But to get there, you have to start with stuff a lot more specific and domain-informed than the usual CRAAP. Wide angle shares Cable Green’s thoughts on the key role that open access to information and knowledge plays in ensuring quality education in the world.” _ https://en.unesco.org/news/cable-green-open-license-all-publicly-funded-educational-resources _, Pingback: Resources added to Diigo (weekly) | Beth Holland.

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I want them to learn these things in a context, and to understand why they matter, and to exercise a growing disposition toward thoughtful care in all the communicative elements at their disposal. We act like there’s skills and a process, and there is, certainly. ( Log Out /  In checking how Haggis is made I actually did come across a few hilarious sites about one rather fantastic and doubtful suggestion as to its origin. Again, it’s not skills, exactly. I skimmed this post mostly because it was long, but more because I was already agreeing with your premise. Information literacy (IL) is a continuum. There were even references on some sites to a “Wild Haggis Conservation Society”. Maybe I look into fasciation rates and see how abnormal this is. You see the students here applying the tools that information literacy has given them.

That FEMA banner is a red flag to me that this site is for people that buy into deep right wing conspiracies that the Obama Administration is going to round conservatives up into FEMA prison camps. From this, we can assume this database is credible, so now go back and try searching for the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus, or Octopus paxarbolis. But the other piece is they need to be able to recognize that we call this policy area “gun control”. In other words, just as on the domain knowledge side we want enough knowledge to quickly identify whether news items pass the smell test, on the technical side we don’t want just abstract information literacy principles, but concrete web research methods and well-known markers of information quality on the web.

I even came across a site pleading people to switch to “artificial haggis” and to conserve the ever depleting population of wild haggi. One of the problems I’ve had for a while with traditional digital literacy programs is that they tend to see digital literacy as a separable skill from domain knowledge. You see both sides of the equation in this tweet. For instance, which of these five sites are you going to trust most as a news (not opinion) sources?

The all-too-frequent antithesis between skills and knowledge is facile and deplorable.”. Look, for example, at one of the tasks the students failed at — identifying the quality of a tweet on gun control: As the study authors note, a literate response would note two things: The undergraduates here did not do well. As a librarian who works in schools and teaches information literacy you are making some very interesting points. If you want to know the real way to evaluate the site, claims Pondiscio, it’s not by doing something, it’s by knowing something: It’s possible to spend countless hours looking at the various RADCAB categories without getting the joke. Editors’ Choice: Yes, Digital Literacy. The purpose of this activity is to prove (or disprove) the validity of the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus and the website affirming it. It might also make sense (crazy, I know!) your traffic, you can earn additional cash every month because you’ve got high quality content. Alex Reid is particularly good on why faculty do not see that, and what the consequences are. In the case of the Fukushima flowers did you ever wonder why the poster of the photo posted in English, rather than Japanese, and had an English username? Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. A viral photo may exist in hundreds of different knock-off versions. They gave them information literacy platitudes: Many students made broad statements about the limitations of polling or the dangers of social media content instead of investigating the particulars of the organizations involved in this tweet. Useful information, correctly weighted, comes out the other end. I had the opportunity to also check out some of Robert Burns’ poems. Yet, because thst’s on the bottom of the Bloom’s pyramid, we’re conditioned to blow past it in order to get to the sexier stuff up top, which-according to Wineburg-suffers from the dearth of content literacy. They need to know what a think tank is. In doing so we find out this is resident of the Fukushima area who has been trying to document possible effects of radiation in their area.

I agree, Mike. For those of you who’d like to hear or read the poem here is the link to the BBC website which has the text as well as an audio file of the poem being read by John Gordon Sinclair: An Address to a Haggis. They actually post a lot on information on the photo in their feed as they discuss it with various reporters, so we can find out that these were seen in another person’s garden, and even see that the photographer had taken a photo before they bloomed, a month earlier, which reduces the likelihood that this is a photo manipulation somewhat dramatically: Even here, the author notes that they know it is a known mutation of such things. Try looking it up on. Through a general skills checklist? However, searches for “CAP” (the Center for American Progress’s acronym, which is included in the tweet’s graphic) did not produce useful information. But the evening isn’t just about the food. They need to know to click the link. If I may metaphorically link it to mathematical knowledge for a moment – you can get by in math for quite a long time by relying on memorisation of “math facts” and formulae, however without “number sense” you’re going to come adrift at some point when the problems get hard or you draw a memory blank. Not just “this is what the web is”, but “let’s pull apart the guts of the web and see how we get a reliable publication date”. ( Log Out /  Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. and links to the scientific-sounding ”Cephalopod News.”. The early implementations of that — complete with a somewhat white and male glossary of Things People Should Know — rubbed me the wrong way. But the consensus view in psychology is that these skills are gained mainly through broad knowledge of a domain.

Asking the right question matters. Try looking it up on dictionary.com, google.com, and/or merriam-webster.com. This seems obvious, I suppose, but remember that in evaluating the gun control claim in the Stanford study, over half the students didn’t even click the link to the supporting resource. As I look at my own process with fact-checking, for example, I see models such as Guided Inquiry being far more helpful — systems that help me understand what the next steps are, rather than abstract rubric of quality. Is this really from Portland? A. take rhetoric and composition courses so u can argue/write. Hint: tentaculate is not the same, nor does it mean the same thing. No. With web-based fact-checking, there is always another hyperlink, always another angle to consider, even though you can use the preponderance of your findings to craft an argument or analysis at any time. Of course, if I put a little more effort in, I would find that all these things exist and what blended and network learning means (incorporate greater use of technology to enhance student learning or to leverage the resources of the Internet in their classes). 1,4 K J’aime. Now maybe in another world Snopes doesn’t have this story.

And I think what we find when we look at the work of real-life fact-checkers is that this process shifts based on what you’re looking at, so the process has to be artifact-aware: This is how you verify a user-generated video for example, not “here’s things to think about when you evaluate stuff.”. I’ll give an example. Finally, the organization this webpage is associated with is the “Kelvinic University branch of the Wild Haggis Conservation Society” (noted all the way at the bottom of the site). It was crushing to spend two days talking authority and bias and relevance and the CRAAP test,  having the students do well on small exercises, and then having students in the course of a project referencing sites like these. In the metaphor of most educators, there’s a set of digital or information literacy skills, which is sort of like the factory process. But it’s those last three lines that are the core of the understanding, and it’s an understanding we can’t afford to ignore: “[T]he consensus view in psychology is that these skills are gained mainly through broad knowledge of a domain. My point is that recognizing any one of these things as an indicator — FEMA, related sites, gold seizures, typography — would have allowed students to approach this site with a starting hypothesis of what the bias and aims of this site might be which they could then test. Or you might need to know how to translate foreign news sources. The “Government Slaves” to me is a right-wing trope — not necessarily fringe, but Tea Party-ish at the least.

You can look it up and see if it was correctly labelled if you want. And when we do that we a screen cap of a Twitter image that is older than the picture we are looking at and uses Japanese, which, lets face it makes more sense: (BTW, notice that to know to look for Japanese we have to know that the Fukushima disaster happened in Japan. The CC license is today a global standard givig the people the right to share, use, and build upon an otherwise copyrighted work.

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