Examples of Satire or Deception

Jonathan Swift wrote his 1729 satirical essay "A Modest Proposal" to convey the plight of the starving Irish tenants and the lack of compassion of their English landlords.

Over a century later, Mark Twain wrote his satirical novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, which mocks the romance novels popular in the 1880's.

Satire continues to be used to demonstrate the gullibility of people who accept without question information which they find on a web page. For example, Lyle Zapato has posted websites such as "Belgium" and the "Pacific Northwest tree octopus (Octopus paxarbolis)" which are used as object lessons by information literacy instructors. -DD

Information Literacy Instruction in an Online Environment

Melissa Wong uses this hour long presentation to provide tips for teaching information literacy to online university students.

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Information Literacy Resources from Credo

CREDO distributes information and tools for teaching information literacy (IL).

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Credo InfoLit Learning Community

Credo maintains an InfoLit Learning Community where professionals discuss information literacy and website evaluation. And it is a place for Credo to market its products.

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Radical Information Literacy

Brian Mathews cites Andrew Witworth and his talk on Radical Information Literacy.   According to Witworth:

Ultimately what radical IL pedagogy seeks is to develop 'informed participation' in the decision-making structures of society.

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Digital Liberal Arts

William Pennapacker encourages universities to ensure that arts and humanities students develop technology competencies which will make them more marketable upon graduation.

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Student Information Literacy

Catherine Rampell published published observations by Sociologist Eszter Hargittai on student information literacy in the April 29, 2008 online edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Hargeittai notes that students have problems locating and evaluating information. One of the reader comments on Hargittai's message captured her message with a vivid image:

The broader, underlying issue is that teens and young adults are praised ad nauseum for their ability to ‘process’ information. But fewer and fewer of them seem to actually understand what anything means, or care to. Put a thousand monkeys at a thousand keyboardrs for a thousand years and one of them may write ‘Hamlet’. But he still can’t find Denmark on a map.
_{—- Comment #13 posted by GRF Apr 30, 09:03 AM}

_-D.D.