Ethics and Media Literacy in a Digital World |
Participate and share : Interactive lecture
Darren Hudgins Jennifer LaGarde Dr. Kristen Mattson
This session, led by three ISTE authors, will focus on the intersection of ethics and media literacy, providing educators with the knowledge and resources to help them guide students through the tough questions that reside in the gray areas of humans’ relationship with the gadgets, apps, tools and tech companies that permeate our lives. Hear about strategies to help educators provide learners with the skills to be digital detectives: information interrogators who are armed with a variety of tools for dissecting news stories and determining what’s real and what isn’t in our “post-truth world.”
Audience: | Library media specialists, Teachers |
Skill level: | Beginner |
Attendee devices: | Devices not needed |
Topic: | Library/media |
Grade level: | 6-12 |
Subject area: | Social studies |
ISTE Standards: | For Educators: Analyst
Digital Citizen
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Additional detail: | ISTE author presentation |
Help educators teach students about digital ethics and media literacy through the following:
-Share meaningful lessons that move beyond existing “fake news” protocols for determining information credibility.
-Provide examples of how information can be presented to students so that the strategies used for determining information credibility can be applied outside of school.
-Unpack the connection between social-emotional learning and information literacy.
-Help attendees understand why digital ethics is an important topic to study, sharing knowledge about the various ethical dilemmas faced by an increasingly technological society.
-Demonstrate practical ways to engage students in conversation around debatable topics.
Society needs thoughtful, empathetic digital citizens who can navigate the critical ethical questions at the intersection of technology and humanity. But they also require students who are savvy information consumers and educators that can provide learners with the skills to be digital detectives: information interrogators who are armed with a variety of tools for dissecting news stories and determining what’s real and what isn’t in our “post-truth world.”
To answer this call, ISTE had brought together authors Kristen Mattson (Ethics in a Digital World: Guiding Students Through Society’s Biggest Questions) and the team of Jennifer LaGarde and Darren Hudgins (Fact vs. Fiction and forthcoming Developing Digital Detectives: Essential Lessons for Discerning Fact from Fiction in the “Fake News” Era) to help all those that attend discover ways to:
-Move beyond existing “fake news” protocols for determining information credibility.
-Find examples of how information can be presented to students so that the strategies used for determining information credibility can be applied outside of school.
-Unpack the connection between social-emotional learning and information literacy.
-Help attendees understand why digital ethics is an important topic to study, sharing knowledge about the various ethical dilemmas faced by an increasingly technological society.
-Demonstrate practical ways to engage students in conversation around debatable topics.
This session will be appropriately chunked in a series of 10-20 minute intervals where the authors will present a piece of new learning and then hand it over to the attendees to practice. Concluding in one of three varied reflection strategies 1) individual meta-cognition, 2) peer to peer interactions, and 3) whole group open mic or chat feature protocols. The facilitators will toggle the following instructional design throughout the workshop until the workshop comes to an end using a series of different applications and device based-activities.
Ethics in a Digital World (ISTE, 2021) by Kristen Mattson
Developing Digital Detectives (ISTE, 2021) and Fact vs. Fiction (ISTE, 2018) by Jennifer LaGarde & Darren Hudgins
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