Health literacy is to be able to use healthcare information and services.
Read MoreGlobal Media and Information Literacy Week 2018
Creative projects, the latest research, new ideas, and information across countries and stakeholders involved in MIL, and in print, screen-based and digital media.
Read MoreFive Laws of Media and Information Literacy
We are travelling towards the universality of books, the Internet and all forms of “containers of knowledge”. Media and information literacy for all should be seen as a nexus of human rights.
Read MoreWhy Informationskompetenz is not equivalent to Information Literacy
The German notion of Informationskompetenz (information competence) expresses the ability to use and create information as the educational goal of information literacy instruction (Vermittlung). The English “Information literacy” emphasises the conceptual understandings of information use and information creation as a standardized state.
Read MoreSpreading true and false news online
False news was more novel than true news, which suggests that people were more likely to share novel information.
Read MorePseudosciences in the “Science Society”
This series of blog posts is about esoteric practices and how information literacy (critical thinking, source criticism and judgement) protects against rip-offs.
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Moscow Declaration on Media and Information Literacy
Media and Information Literacy MIL is defined as 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.
Read MoreDefining Information Competence
The goal of becoming information competent is to empower decision-making in the course of problem-solving by uncovering meaning. However this is not solely based on information but also on gut feeling and emotions. While gut feeling and emotions are broadly the subject of psychology, we are going to focus on dealing with information, as something outside brain, informing us about the world around us.
Read MoreNoble Lies, Fictions and Fake News
This posting is an extended version to the feedback on CEC’s roadmap “Communication on fake news and online misinformation”.
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