My world on the web
One of the things I’ve been trying to convince people for the past year and a half is that the only viable literacy solution to web misinformation involves always checking any information in your stream that you find interesting, emotion-producing, or shareable. It’s not enough to check the stuff that is suspicious: if you apply your investigations selectively, you’ve already lost the battle.
Now imagine a world where checking your mirrors before switching lanes was rare, three standard-deviations-out behavior. What would the roads look like?
Caulfield focuses on two what is the site and is this new correct true. In a world where abundance is only a click away, maybe we are at a point where it is time to reassess what that actually means.
Ian O’Byrne continues his discussion of the importance of critical literacy for students today in response to the changing ways that networked publics consume and critique information online. It is interesting to compare O’Byrne’s prompts for interrogating texts with Mike Caulfield’s four moves. Another interesting read on this topic is Clare Wardle’s lessons on for the age of disinformation.