There are several objectives and skills that are acquainted with information literacy, technology, and digital/media within the media specialist world. This week I analyzed the P21 Framework, the article “Truth, Truthiness, Triangulation: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” World by Joyce Valenza, and the Big 6 Skills. Each of these resources provided an in depth look at the skills, caution, and knowledge you should acquire not only as a media specialist, but also how to help your students with their futures with digital/media. While looking at the P21 Framework, there is an image/infographic that showcases the outcomes and support systems for what a 21st century student should be able to obtain throughout their years in primary and secondary school. Within this framework, media specialists should help educate students on global, environmental, and financial awareness along with learning how to properly analyze, create, apply, critically think, communicate, and collaborate towards a big bundle of skills in information, media, technology, and innovation. These concepts are very much intertwined with one another because each one becomes a building block for one another. For example, if a student is looking up the effects of global climate change on a certain geographical region and wants to try and help alleviate the problems, they would have to be able to analyze the research on the internet to make sure it was reliable, create a solution, apply what is needed to gather the tools and information needed to help, communicate with locals, and collaborate with various scientists that could help in this endeavor. Most of this would need proper technology and information skills to achieve the best possible outcome that is authentic and dependable.
Valenza (2016) states that, “it has always been up to the reader or viewer to make the reliability and credibility decisions”. However, that is not always easy. If you learned from the P21 Framework, then you know what it takes to get all the resources you need, but you are to be the judge of reliability and credibility of the information. Valenza’s article goes into the importances of understanding news literacy. Valenza defines news literacy as, “the ability to use critical thinking skills to judge the reliability and credibility of news reports, whether they come via print, television or the Internet” (2016). Ultimately, distinguishing it as real or fake news. Within her article, Valenza provides several rules that will help you when trying to decide if the information is credible. To name a few: you must interrogate urls, suspect the sensational, think outside the reliability box, triangulate, question what you are exactly reading and be suspicious of pictures (Valenza, 2016). These rules prepare the students and media specialists for appropriately considering the validity of the information.
Therefore, that brings in the process of the Big 6 skills process model. This model
encompasses a process that will help you with applying the P21 framework and Valenza’s framework of determining real or fake news. This process model consists of defining the problem, information needed, selecting the best possible sources, locating information inside the sources, extracting the relevant information, organizing and presenting information, and judging the efficiency of the process. Furthermore, based on these findings, it forms what the information diet of a school media specialist should include.
All of these resources showcase what should be in the lunchbox of a media specialist. They all help students digest what is needed to be literate in information literacy along with the utensils that will help them examine and analyze being a good digital citizen.
References
Battelle for Kids. (2019). P21 frameworks & resources. Frameworks & Resources. https://www.battelleforkids.org/networks/p21/frameworks-resources
Battelle for Kids. (2019). P21 frameworks [photograph]. https://www.battelleforkids.org/networks/p21/frameworks-resources
Eisenberg, M., & Berkowitz, B. (n.d.). Big6 skills overview. Squarespace. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59a303936a49631dd51f9a7d/t/5b92bf5e03ce644e10c18005/1536343902416/Big6+Skills+Overview.pdf
Valenza, J. (2016). Truth, truthiness, triangulation: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world. SLJ Blogs. https://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2016/11/26/truth-truthiness-triangulation-and-the-librarian-way-a-news-literacy-toolkit-for-a-post-truth-world/
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