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DISINFORMATION DETOX: Media Literacy as a Tool for Student Empowerment
No full textIn today’s digital environment, information flows faster than ever and a lot of it is inaccurate, biased, or deliberately misleading. Media literacy is essential for academic success and informed citizenship. Media Literacy Essentials, a pilot module in the UCF Libraries’ information literacy program, provides strategies for improving media literacy
Obojobo Information Literacy Modules 2023 Archive
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Disinformation Detox: Media Literacy as a Tool for Student Empowerment
No full textBackground
In an era of deepfakes, algorithmic manipulation, and viral misinformation, students face increasing challenges in discerning credible information. Media literacy has become a critical skill for academic success and informed citizenship. Module Overview
Media Literacy Essentials is a newly launched pilot module designed to help students detox from disinformation by equipping them with foundational skills in evaluating sources, identifying bias, and understanding media production. The module is part of a first-year experience course and encourages active engagement with real-world media. Preliminary Observations
Now in its first semester, the module has shown encouraging signs of student engagement and curiosity. While formal results are not yet available, early feedback and classroom interactions suggest that students are beginning to approach media with greater skepticism and awareness. Implications for Student Success
By fostering critical thinking and information resilience, Media Literacy Essentials supports broader student success outcomes. These include improved academic confidence, stronger research habits, and enhanced digital citizenship. These skills are essential for navigating today’s complex media landscape
Better Together: Embedding Media Literacy into Academic Courses
No full textIn an era where digital information is abundant and often misleading, equipping college students with media literacy skills is more crucial than ever. This lightning talk will provide a streamlined guide to developing a comprehensive media literacy course specifically designed for college students. Attendees will learn about the essential components of the course, including how to design an engaging curriculum, implement effective teaching strategies, and utilize assessment methods to gauge student understanding.
Participants will be able to:
Understand the importance of media literacy within the broader context of information literacy and its impact on college students’ ability to navigate digital information, including social media. Identify the steps involved in designing a media literacy course, including setting clear learning objectives, selecting appropriate materials, and structuring the curriculum effectively. Learn effective teaching methods for engaging college students in media literacy, such as interactive activities, discussions, and multimedia resources that foster critical thinking and analysis. Discuss various assessment tools to measure college students’ understanding and application of media literacy skills, ensuring that they can critically evaluate media sources and make informed decisions.
This lightning talk aims to equip educators with the knowledge and tools needed to develop and implement a media literacy course that empowers college students to critically analyze media content and navigate the digital landscape with confidence. Presenters are currently in the process of developing the course and will discuss their process and results to date
Dovetailing the Digital Divide
No full textAt the University of Central Florida, all students enrolled in any of our online degree seeking programs are required to complete a library orientation module before their first semester. The orientation module provides a comprehensive overview of library resources and spaces but previously did not highlight an invaluable resource: librarians. The ACRL framework spotlights how librarians contribute to student success and this module aims to aid in connecting students and librarians.Within the last semester, significant changes have been made to the module, primarily focusing on helping students understand why and how they should connect with a librarian. These updates also clarified the various ways students can meet with librarians, whether individually or in small groups.In the last year, the module has undergone significant revisions, including a reassessment of learning outcomes, a visual redesign, enhanced interactive components, and a clearer, more concise explanation of librarian expertise and how to best connect with a librarian.The primary goal of redeveloping the module is to encourage more students to engage with librarians. Additional benefits may include increased time spent in the module, greater comfort using library spaces, and more meaningful interactions with digital library resources.This poster will outline the module before and after its redesign, as well as any increases in online learners connecting with librarians
Using AI to align multiple choice questions to learning outcomes
Full text linkJoin librarians as they share the results of an experiment using Microsoft Co-Pilot to align quiz questions to learning outcomes in Canvas modules. This presentation will outline the process for developing a prompt that garnered useful results, an evaluation of how effective it was to use AI for this purpose, and discussion of the publicly available information AI suggested to improve the modules. Participants will gain insight into the benefits and pitfalls of using AI to evaluate the content of course materials
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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