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Meta-literacy: Now is the time, today is the day.
Keywords
information literacy, social media, meta-literacy
Session Abstract
Trolls, deep fake, newsjacking. Our evolving technology, as beneficial as it is, has challenges. The information literacy skills of 20 years ago are not sufficient to access, evaluate, share, and create trustworthy information. This session presents the evolution from information literacy to meta-literacy and how educators can support these skills.
Session Description
It's 1974 and the term "information literacy" is coined by the president of the Information Industry Association. By the late '80s and early '90s, the American Library Association, The Aspen Institute, and the Center for Media Literacy are pressing for students to acquire better skills in accessing, evaluating, and using information. Those information literacy skills taught in the formal classroom are, today, insufficient to critically evaluate the explosion of information that is heard and read, as well as, seen and shared, or created and published. Our evolving technology, as beneficial as it is, has its challenges as well.
In this session, we will look at the evolution of information-, media-, digital-, and cyber-literacy and the movement toward the meta-literacy needs of an informed citizenry and how adult educators can integrate skill-building around this framework into their curriculum or through outreach in non-formal and informal learning venues. Meta-literacy, as described by Mackey & Jacobson (2011), "promotes critical thinking and collaboration in a digital age, providing a comprehensive framework to participate in social media and online communities" (p. 62).