Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)
Target Audience
Other
Location
Auditorium
Proposal
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Short Description
Establishing credibility just ain’t as easy as it used to be. Or: in a very short period of time, it seems, we have gone from a formalized and secure information literacy system to an ecology of facts, data, personal narrative, information, and misinformation, all inhabiting the same sphere, each info bit circulating as though it carried the same value as all the others. What’s a teacher, a student--and even a citizen just trying to be informed--to do? This presentation sets a context by outlining three “periods” in the recent history of information literacy: (1) the period of all-vetting-all-the-time; (2) the period of online access of information, information still vetted but often including raw data; and (3) the current period located in an ecology of interacting sources—academic; mainstream; and “alternative.” Given this context and the current moment, what are tasks we might set for students so that they can determine what’s credible and what’s not? As important, if in the future students not only knowledge-consumers but also knowledge-makers, what tasks can we set that will foster this development?
Keywords
Web 2.0, Information literacy
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Yancey, Kathleen Blake, "Creating and Exploring New Worlds: Web 2.0, Information Literacy, and the Uses of Knowledge" (2009). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 58.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2009/2009/58
Creating and Exploring New Worlds: Web 2.0, Information Literacy, and the Uses of Knowledge
Auditorium
See presentation description.
