Information and Technology Literacy
Facilitated by the Technology Literacy Open Course Project from Colorado Community College System
Welcome to Week 2 of Rapid Responses
The focus of this first week of rapid responses is on information and technology literacy in an ever changing landscape.
Here's the icebreaker for this week:
There's 2 parts and then we'd like you to watch the video.
Part 1: The Pew Research Center's Project on the Internet, Science and Tech is a excellent website for information on technology and even fake news. Take their What the Public Know About Cybersecurity quiz and let us know your results in our Discord Rapid Response.
Part 2: Take this Pop Quiz, from the TLT group. For this one, we'll collect the results and post in Rapid Response.
Here's the icebreaker for this week:
There's 2 parts and then we'd like you to watch the video.
Part 1: The Pew Research Center's Project on the Internet, Science and Tech is a excellent website for information on technology and even fake news. Take their What the Public Know About Cybersecurity quiz and let us know your results in our Discord Rapid Response.
Part 2: Take this Pop Quiz, from the TLT group. For this one, we'll collect the results and post in Rapid Response.
Google Hangout on Wednesday at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT
#Hacked Interactive Fiction Game as a Worked Example
The Technology Literacy Open Source Group will be doing a panel discussion on Hangout on how to use #hacked on a discussion both on fake news and alternative facts and cybersecurity issues.
Weekly Rapid Response Project (Create and Curate)
Each week you can work individually or in a group. Go into discord and post "Looking for Group" anytime.
Our week starts on Monday and goes until Sunday. The Wednesday night hangout is used for a worked example by the facilitating group.
For your project this week, responding to current issues in information and technology literacy, you have several choices.
1) Explore an information platform that you haven't before. Pick from instragram, reddit and snapchat or some other social media platform you have never used. Pick a news topic and follow that news topic on that platform. Write up for us a summary of what you found and compare it a news source you normally follow. If you are really adventurous and want in on a ethnographic experience, you can also try these Reddit alternatives.
2) Play the Al Jazeera game #Hacked and create your own activity for your students.
This can be used as an ice breaker at the beginning of a F2F class. It can also be used as an online activity with guided discussion in a online class or have students play it and come in ready to discuss in a flipped or hybrid class.
3) Hold a Google Hangout on Fake News or Cybersecurity or even a F2F forum.
Use your local experts like your librarians, political science professors, communications professor and even throw in a philosophy or history professor for good measure.
Google Hangout automatically records each Hangout and uploads it to your YouTube Channel.
It's your choice. You may decide to do short one person video or a longer one hour panel discussion.
4) Create a plan for a tweetchat on fake news or cybersecurity.
Develop the plan for both a traditional 30 - 60 minute tweetchat and also a slow twitter that lasts 24 hours or longer.
This tweetchat can be tied to a recent incident, a specific article or even a fictional work like a book or movie.
Make a meme or a picture for your tweetchat and post it our flickr site. Remember to open it up for discussion. Ask your colleagues for feedback and see if they would click on the link to your event based on that picture. Here's an example of one of our images.
Have other ideas? You can come up with your own ideas for projects on information and technology literacy.
Share them in Discord! Remember our goal is to create and curate.
Our week starts on Monday and goes until Sunday. The Wednesday night hangout is used for a worked example by the facilitating group.
For your project this week, responding to current issues in information and technology literacy, you have several choices.
1) Explore an information platform that you haven't before. Pick from instragram, reddit and snapchat or some other social media platform you have never used. Pick a news topic and follow that news topic on that platform. Write up for us a summary of what you found and compare it a news source you normally follow. If you are really adventurous and want in on a ethnographic experience, you can also try these Reddit alternatives.
2) Play the Al Jazeera game #Hacked and create your own activity for your students.
This can be used as an ice breaker at the beginning of a F2F class. It can also be used as an online activity with guided discussion in a online class or have students play it and come in ready to discuss in a flipped or hybrid class.
3) Hold a Google Hangout on Fake News or Cybersecurity or even a F2F forum.
Use your local experts like your librarians, political science professors, communications professor and even throw in a philosophy or history professor for good measure.
Google Hangout automatically records each Hangout and uploads it to your YouTube Channel.
It's your choice. You may decide to do short one person video or a longer one hour panel discussion.
4) Create a plan for a tweetchat on fake news or cybersecurity.
Develop the plan for both a traditional 30 - 60 minute tweetchat and also a slow twitter that lasts 24 hours or longer.
This tweetchat can be tied to a recent incident, a specific article or even a fictional work like a book or movie.
Make a meme or a picture for your tweetchat and post it our flickr site. Remember to open it up for discussion. Ask your colleagues for feedback and see if they would click on the link to your event based on that picture. Here's an example of one of our images.
Have other ideas? You can come up with your own ideas for projects on information and technology literacy.
Share them in Discord! Remember our goal is to create and curate.
Resources
Academic Reports
Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning
Educating for Democracy in a Partisan Age: Confronting the Challenges of Motivated Reasoning and Misinformation
ALT Twitter Accounts
Alternative HHS @AltHHS https://twitter.com/AltHHS
The official unaffiliated resistance account by concerned scientists for humanity.
Alternative NOAA @altNOAA https://twitter.com/altNOAA
The Unofficial "Resistance" team of the NOAA. Account not tax payer subsidized. The NOAA studies the oceans, and the atmosphere to understand our planet.
AltFDA @alt_fda https://twitter.com/alt_fda
Not FDA but close enough we can micro swab them.
AltNASA @Alt_NASA https://twitter.com/Alt_NASA
The unofficial #resistance team of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Operated by a #US citizen that is not affiliated with any Federal Agency.
AltUSFWS @AltUSFWS https://twitter.com/AltUSFWS
AltUSFWS dedicated to intersectionality of people, conservation, protection and enhancement of fish, wildlife, plants & habitats. fighting bad policies
BadHomberLands NPS @BadHomberNPS https://twitter.com/BadHombreNPS
Unofficial feed of Badlands NP. Protecting rugged scenery, fossil beds, 244,000 acres of mixed-grass prairie & wildlife from two-bit cheetoh-hued despots.
JournalAltFacts @JournalAltFacts https://twitter.com/JournalAltFacts
RogueNASA @RogueNASA https://twitter.com/RogueNASA
The unofficial "Resistance" team of NASA. Not an official NASA account. Not managed by gov't employees. Come for the facts, stay for the snark.
RoguePOTUSStaff @RoguePOTUSStaff https://twitter.com/RoguePOTUSStaff
The unofficial resistance team inside the White House. We will block anyone who asks us to ID ourselves (including press), or who makes suggestions of violence.
Forest and Public Land hashtags
#KeepItPublic
#KeepItWild
#Resistance
#resist
#ResistanceIsNOTFutile
#persist
Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning
Educating for Democracy in a Partisan Age: Confronting the Challenges of Motivated Reasoning and Misinformation
ALT Twitter Accounts
Alternative HHS @AltHHS https://twitter.com/AltHHS
The official unaffiliated resistance account by concerned scientists for humanity.
Alternative NOAA @altNOAA https://twitter.com/altNOAA
The Unofficial "Resistance" team of the NOAA. Account not tax payer subsidized. The NOAA studies the oceans, and the atmosphere to understand our planet.
AltFDA @alt_fda https://twitter.com/alt_fda
Not FDA but close enough we can micro swab them.
AltNASA @Alt_NASA https://twitter.com/Alt_NASA
The unofficial #resistance team of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Operated by a #US citizen that is not affiliated with any Federal Agency.
AltUSFWS @AltUSFWS https://twitter.com/AltUSFWS
AltUSFWS dedicated to intersectionality of people, conservation, protection and enhancement of fish, wildlife, plants & habitats. fighting bad policies
BadHomberLands NPS @BadHomberNPS https://twitter.com/BadHombreNPS
Unofficial feed of Badlands NP. Protecting rugged scenery, fossil beds, 244,000 acres of mixed-grass prairie & wildlife from two-bit cheetoh-hued despots.
JournalAltFacts @JournalAltFacts https://twitter.com/JournalAltFacts
RogueNASA @RogueNASA https://twitter.com/RogueNASA
The unofficial "Resistance" team of NASA. Not an official NASA account. Not managed by gov't employees. Come for the facts, stay for the snark.
RoguePOTUSStaff @RoguePOTUSStaff https://twitter.com/RoguePOTUSStaff
The unofficial resistance team inside the White House. We will block anyone who asks us to ID ourselves (including press), or who makes suggestions of violence.
Forest and Public Land hashtags
#KeepItPublic
#KeepItWild
#Resistance
#resist
#ResistanceIsNOTFutile
#persist