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Fake news alerts: Teaching news literacy skills in a meme world |
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| Authors: | Sonnet Ireland |
| Institution: | 1. St. Tammany Parish Librarysonnet.ireland@yahoo.com |
| Abstract: | ABSTRACTThirty years ago, fake news was resigned to tabloids at the grocery store. Now, fake news is often more convincing than real news. Many library users lack the appropriate skills to discern between what is real and what is not, and many more get their information from social media memes. When memes are more effective than actual news, what can librarians do to teach information literacy? Librarians can use memes to promote information literacy; they can even create their own! |
| Keywords: | Information literacy news literacy memes digital citizenship media literacy creative teaching tools |