Online Literacy and Critical Thinking : Alexandre Enkerli
http://enkerli.wordpress.com Online Literacy and Critical Thinking
This Session : This Session Semi-directive
Use chat to interact
Questions at end
Recording will be available
Slides already available
Introductions : Introductions Locations
Interests
Primary roles
Students
Teachers
Journalists/media
Origins of this Session : Origins of this Session Journalism on online reading
“Kids these days”
Living online
Information overload and globalisation
Other WiZiQ sessions
Tall Order : Tall Order Primary learning
Takes time
Ways of Knowing
“Planting landminds”
Literacy : Literacy “Reading and writing”
Basic skill
Savviness (being savvy, know what to do with)
Individual approach
Media Literacy : Media Literacy “Don’t get fooled”
“Everyone has something to sell”
“In on secret”
“How to read newspapers”
Media criticism
Journalistic Assumptions : Journalistic Assumptions Source trust
Removing bias
Balance and neutrality
Difference in skills
Critical Thinking : Critical Thinking “Critical sense” («sens critique»)
Behind information
Can a representation be accurate?
Make mind
Criticism Not Nitpicking
Online Disadvantages : Online Disadvantages Fragmented reading
Skimming
No authority?
Information overload
Online Advantages : Online Advantages Ease of finding
Ease of sharing
Multiplicity of voices
Multichannel
Informal
Forced Critical Thinking : Forced Critical Thinking Spam
Troll
Fanboy
April Fool’s
The Onion
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Blog
Information Overload : Information Overload “Fire hydrant”
Don’t try to take everything in
Deemphasize memory
Seek information or let information select you
Keywords, tags, folksonomies
Distributed reading
Taking In : Taking In “Read, read, read”
Immerse yourself
Overwhelming
Don’t worry about understanding everything
Reserve judgement
Notice patterns
How to Read : How to Read Concentric circles
Front and back matter
Headings
Assumptions
Shaver and Reimer on better reading
Processing : Processing Evaluating
Creating
Analyzing
Post-Reading : Post-Reading “Establish relationship with author”
Discuss
Share
Comment
Transform
Writing : Writing Active reading
Note-taking
Quick writing
Public writing
Dare write
Try ideas out
Getting comments
Source : Source Source criticism
Source bias
Primary or secondary source
Narrative and form
“Why do they say this?”
Cultural translation
Source Types : Source Types Joke
Fairytale
Rumour
Legend
Newspaper piece
Encyclopedia entry
Personal narrative (anecdote)
Peer-reviewed scholarly journals
What to do with source? : What to do with source? Context
Author
Internal structure
Representative of viewpoint
Use in broader approach
Independent verification
Discuss
Wikipedia as Source : Wikipedia as Source Encyclopaedias in general
Neutrality as ideal (NPOV)
Exhaustivity as dream (Diderot)
Britannica isn’t better
Often single-author
Selected topics
Anglo-American
Monolingual
Links : Links Baloney Detection Kit
Shaver and Reimer on Reading Better
Intellectual Self-Defense
Intute’s Virtual Training Suite
Internet Detective
Raising Standards – By Lowering Them
Wikipedia Articles : Wikipedia Articles Information Criticism
Critical Literacy
Credibility
Cognitive Authority
Source Evaluation
Source Criticism
Alexandre Links : Alexandre Links Main blog: Disparate http://enkerli.wordpress.com/
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