Updated edition providing students with hands-on strategies for digital
literacy.The second edition of this best-selling classroom guide helps
students understand why digital literacy is a crucial skill for their
education, future careers, and participation in democracy. Offering
practical guidance for assessing information online, this guide provides
students with the tools to locate reliable sources among the clickbait
and viral videos that pervade the web. The guide's hands-on activities,
germane readings, and lesson plans give students strategies for reading
and analyzing data visualizations; finding and evaluating credible
sources; learning how to spot fake news; fact-checking; crafting a
research question; effectively conducting searches on Google and on
library catalogs and databases; finding peer-reviewed publications;
evaluating primary sources; and understanding disinformation and
misinformation, filter bubbles, propaganda, and satire in a variety of
sources--including websites, social media posts, infographics, videos,
and more (on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and
YouTube). New to the second edition: - attention to the ethical
dimensions of digital technology, including privacy issues and bias in
search algorithms--with an accompanying lesson plan- an emphasis on how
digital literacy can help stem racism, sexism, ableism, and the
perpetuation of harmful stereotypes- instruction on inclusive research
and citation practices to avoid perpetuating systemic bias - a new
chapter, "Composing in Digital Spaces," that offers instruction in
multimodal composition and foregrounds accessibility - a new and
up-to-date reading, "The Real History of Fake News" - a section on
avoiding plagiarism - updated references and examples - resource lists
of digital tools, platforms, and software that can support the practices
described in the guide
