Guest Lecturer delivering four 2-hour sessions on Information and Research Skills to TAR UC Dual Award students from Malaysia
Part One
I. Information Overload – The Internet vs. the World Wide
Web. Surface web vs. Invisible Web. The dark Internet vs. The deep Web
II. Preliminary considerations - Alvin Toffler’s reflections on the digital,
technological and communication revolution – acquisition of cognitive (and
emotional skills)
WorldCat Search
for Toffler’s bibliography
III.
Information Literacy - the role of UNESCO
What’s the
education-literacy rate in Malaysia (UNESCO stats)?
IV. The
Moscow Declaration on MIL (2012) What is MIL (Media and Information Literacy?)
Media and
Information Literacy (MIL) is a combination of knowledge, attitudes, skills,
and practices required to access, analyse, evaluate, use, produce, and
communicate information and knowledge in creative, legal and ethical ways that
respect human rights.
It is a
prerequisite for the sustainable development of open, plural, inclusive and
participatory knowledge societies, and the civic institutions, organizations,
communities and individuals which comprise these societies.
How media literate are you?
V.
Information Sources- Primary, Secondary and Tertiary
sources of Information.
VI.
Evaluating sources in a post-truth world.
Learning clues to identify fake news
VII. The world of Libraries- The National Library of Kuala
Lumpur and Hikayat Hang Tuah manuscript
Google Images Search
Part Two
I. What is SOCIAL
MEDIA? Following Safko (2012: 3), social media is “…the media we use to be
social”
APA 6th edition citation style –
in-text direct citation from a book - WorldCat
II.
Social Media Platforms – which are the most common ones?
Ranking on top social media platforms – which ones to use?
III.
Which one(s) to choose?
The most-liked companies on Facebook
Some of the best Twitter accounts to follow
IV. Steps to become more media literate:
- Download Twitter and follow new sites to keep you
informed
-
Stop using Facebook for news
V. Developing critical media literacy skills.
VI. Big Data - Data Mining – find a clear definition and some trustful research materials
Who has your back? EFF 2017
report
