Fighting Fake News in the Library

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[ UUID ] 67a05cc4-b933-438d-9b0d-258750293a68

[ Session Name ] Fighting Fake News in the Library [ Primary Space ] Web Literacy

[ Submitter's Name ] Sarah Morris [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Nucleus Learning Network [ Submitter's Github ] @secmorris

What will happen in your session?

Fake news is a hot topic. But fake news itself is not new, and librarians have been combating fake news for years. With a longstanding focus on supporting information literacy, and a more recent focus on digital and media literacy, librarians have long helped people learn the skills they need to find, use, and create information. This session plans to bring librarians and partners together for a curriculum mapping session. Participants will explore a news and web literacy curriculum called Mission:Information. After an opening discussion about how librarians can, and do, combat fake news, participants will collaboratively map the Mission:Information curriculum to work happening in libraries and will develop plans to adapt and use the curriculum in libraries.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

This proposed session aims to be highly collaborative, participatory, and audience-driven. The main goals are, first, to introduce participants to issues and concerns related to fake news, and to examine how librarians work to combat fake news. The next goal is to give participants an opportunity to explore, and consider ways to use, an open-source news and web literacy curriculum called Mission:Information. Finally, the last goal is to engage participants in a curriculum mapping and brainstorming session where they can contribute their ideas and skills and work on mapping and adapting the curriculum for use in libraries. Participants will guide the direction of the session and determine the focus of the discussion and mapping and brainstorming sessions.

Time needed

60 mins

[omnignorant]

@phillipadsmith @anmechung @flukeout @hannahkane flagging for y'all to keep track of --> @secmorris Mission:Information curriculum.

[phillipadsmith]

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[phillipadsmith]

@flukeout @emrysgreen Are you likely to include this one?

[flukeout]

We are planning to include it @phillipadsmith - will have all of the session choices finalized by EOD today.

[edovio]

Hello @secmorris - We are very happy to announce you that we have decided to accept your session at the festival this year! Congratulations! 🎉 You'll receive soon news about how move forward with your proposal

[secmorris]

@edovio Thank you! Just confirming that I will be at MozFest and am looking forward the session.

[edovio]

Thank for your confirmation @secmorris !!! :)

[jonathanprozzi]

Hello @secmorris! As MozFest is approaching we’re asking that you reply to this issue with an outline of the topics and activities for your session. A rough, bullet-point outline with time estimates would be ideal. Thank you and let us know if you have any questions.

[secmorris]

@jonathanprozzi Hello! Here's an outline with time estimates. Please let me know if you need any additional info!

Intros and Opening Discussion - 10 minutes will vary this accordingly based on attendee numbers Get attendees in small groups to discuss the following:

• What brings you here today?
• How would you define misinformation?
• What work are you eager to do around combating misinformation?
• How are librarians uniquely positioned to combat misinformation and fake news?

Mission:Information Project Intro - 10 minutes

• How the project developed
  1. Response to the fake news crisis
  2. Drawing upon my work as a librarian
  3. Mapping content to library standards (AASL, ACRL)
  4. Mapping content to Mozilla web literacy standards
• Where the project is now (open source, on GitHub and Thimble)
• Potential ideas for growth (such as adapting the lessons for younger learners or adding more CS or more history content)

Group Discussion and Brainstorming - 10 minutes

• Brief group discussion - how can librarians work together to combat misinformation?
• Participants will take some time to brainstorm ideas individually for ways to map the curriculum to work currently being done in libraries and ideas for further development

Group Work - 25- minutes

• Participants will get into small groups (depending on attendee numbers will have people form groups with people they haven't yet spoken to or interacted with during the session)
• Groups will work together and develop plans for ways to adapt and further develop the curriculum for use in diverse library environments

Wrap up - 5 minutes

• Share out ways for participants to stay in touch and stay involved with the project (via GitHub, Slack, shared Google doc for resources)
• Provide link to brief exit survey so participants can share feedback and ideas

[edovio]

Dear Facilitators, we are happy to share with you the MozFest facilitators 2017 Guide at the Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fezzIH8u0Li6pIHMNYDCuUjA_gHpB4Px9eXQo4Ol7es/edit It is also important to sign in here: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/festival.fabriders.facilitatorcoaching2017 for the coaching session, that helps you in your facilitation role! :)

[flukeout]

Thanks for the detailed summary @secmorris , looks great!

[flukeout]

Hello @secmorris - we've created the first version of the Web Literacy Space schedule for the weekend and wanted you to have a look...

• Web Literacy Space Schedule
  • It's a public Trello board, so please don't make any changes!
  • We are still finalizing the longer Gallery Space session drop-in times.

Please take a few minutes to locate your session (I've had to abbreviate the session names) and let us know if you have any questions or if there are any reasons that you cannot host your session during the chosen time (like a travel conflict or another session you are hosting at the same time). Please comment in this issue and and include @flukeout to get my attention.

We'll be finalizing the schedule next week and updating the Guidebook app that attendees will use during the festival.

Thanks!