With increasing social media attacks on scholarship and individual academics, educators must be prepared to talk to their students openly about skewed threats from the ideological right. This assignment opens up dialogue against such attacks by introducing core tenets of information literacy in conversation with an instructor’s academic work. The activity promotes open dialogue in ways that humanize those instructors who are the target of such attacks while teaching key aspects of information literacy.

Course: Introduction to Communication, Introduction to Media Studies, Critical Thinking.

Objectives:

(1) Evaluate credibility in online communication

(2) Understand the major tenets of information literacy

(3) Develop strategies for critical reading of arguments in scholarly work

(4) Create dialogue between students and instructors

随着越来越多的社交媒体对奖学金和个人学者的攻击，教育工作者必须准备好与他们的学生公开谈论意识形态权利所带来的倾斜威胁。这项作业通过在与教师的学术工作对话中引入信息素养的核心原则，从而开启了针对此类攻击的对话。该活动以使人为攻击目标的讲师人性化的方式促进公开对话，同时教授信息素养的关键方面。

课程：传播概论，媒体研究概论，批判性思维。

目标：

（1）评估在线交流的信誉

（2）了解信息素养的主要原则

（3）制定对学术作品中的论点进行批判性阅读的策略

（4）在学生与导师之间建立对话