Digital literacy

Health literacy https://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonahowie/8585047526

CILIP calls for public programme of support for information literacy due to Covid-19

Leave a Comment / News / Emma Burnett / 13/11/2020

CILIP has released a statement on Covid-19. This statement emphasises the importance of information literacy in combatting disinformation on Covid-19 and helping people make informed choices during this difficult time. There is a call to create a national public programme to support this: “We urge the Government to work with CILIP to bring forward a […]

CILIP calls for public programme of support for information literacy due to Covid-19 Read More »

Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2020

Leave a Comment / Events, News / IL website administrator / 20/10/2020

The eighth annual global celebration of UNESCO’s Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week will take place from 24 to 31 October 2020, under the theme “Resisting Disinfodemic: Media and Information Literacy for everyone and, by everyone”. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Global MIL Week 2020 feature events will be fully online. To get involved and

Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2020 Read More »

Digital Technology and the Resurrection of Trust: a report from the House of Lords

Leave a Comment / Comment, News / IL website administrator / 03/08/2020

Stéphane Goldstein and Jane Secker discuss the ‘Digital Technology and the Resurrection of Trust’, June 2020 report from the House of Lords Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies. “A country’s education system needs to prepare its people for their role as citizens. In the digital world, this means they need to be empowered to be

Digital Technology and the Resurrection of Trust: a report from the House of Lords Read More »

Now is the time: Information literacy and sharing information about COVID-19

Leave a Comment / Comment / Dan Pullinger / 16/04/2020

The Information Literacy Group are delighted to have commissioned this blog post on the importance of information literacy and its relationship to health literacy. Ruth Carlyle was one of the keynote speakers at LILAC 2019, which took place in April 2019 at the University of Nottingham, and is extremely well placed to write this post.

Now is the time: Information literacy and sharing information about COVID-19 Read More »

Guest post: Why we need critical digital literacy to participate in democracy

1 Comment / Comment, Interviews / Louise Minta / 03/04/2020

Gianfranco Polizzi is a PhD researcher in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In addition, besides finishing his PhD, he is working as a Research Associate in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia, working on a project on digital

Guest post: Why we need critical digital literacy to participate in democracy Read More »

IL Award nominees announced!

Leave a Comment / News / Dan Pullinger / 31/03/2020

The CILIP Information Literacy Group are delighted to announce the shortlisted nominees for this year’s Information Literacy Award and the Digital Award for Information Literacy. Information Literacy Award 2020 The Information Literacy Award recognises an outstanding UK-based practitioner or researcher. The nominees for 2020 are: Elizabeth Hutchinson (Independent Adviser and Trainer for School Libraries) Anita

IL Award nominees announced! Read More »

Digital resources to support online learning

1 Comment / Resources / Dan Pullinger / 25/03/2020

Information professionals in the UK are playing an important role in helping universities to move to online teaching in light of the COVID-19 outbreak. Jane Secker (City, University of London) and Yvonne Nobis (University of Cambridge) have created an editable, shared document to support Higher Education colleagues identify and share useful digital resources to support online

Digital resources to support online learning Read More »

Empowered for Life: Critical thinking for young people

Leave a Comment / Case studies / Dan Pullinger / 24/03/2020

Our latest guest post has kindly been provided by Alex Clegg, Communities Coordinator at Sense About Science, an independent charity that champions the public interest in sound science and ensures evidence is recognised in public life and policy making. A teacher at a conference I recently spoke at described how her pupils on their route from history

Empowered for Life: Critical thinking for young people Read More »

BBC Bitesize launch Fact or Fake? resource

Leave a Comment / News / Dan Pullinger / 23/03/2020

BBC Bitesize have today launched a great new resource to help children to identify fake news and misinformation. The Fact or Fake? website includes articles, video content and quizzes to help young people becoming more discerning about the information they engage with. It also includes content that relates to the current Coronavirus crisis. With misleading

BBC Bitesize launch Fact or Fake? resource Read More »