English
1190 4 Moves/Web Literacy paper
This week your assignment will be to
reflect on the material you have worked through in the first two weeks of the
class and write literacy narrative. Please note that you should have made your
way through the materials from Weeks 1 and 2 before attempting this assignment.
You will also need to read the two
posted articles, “Dismaying Inability” and “How did the news go
‘fake?”
As students you have likely been
trained how to use a library, read a book, write a report, but how many of you
have been trained to use the web?
This matters for many reasons.
Partly it matters for school — can you identify materials that are suitable
for papers? It matters for work as well — how reliable is the data or
information you are using? And it matters for politics — better informed
citizens and policy makers can make better decisions. It even matters for
health — what course of treatment is best for you or your family?
Schools are supposed to
prepare us for all these things, but do they?
Your paper should have three parts.
(each part should contain several paragraphs)
First,
you should construct a narrative that reflects on and tells the story of how
you have come about your practices of using the web to find information. You
might discuss any or all of the following: formal training from your classes;
informal training based on what other people might have told you; self-training—how
you’ve used your ownstrategies, experiences, and insights
to come to your current level of skill and understanding.
Second,
reflect on the material from Weeks 1 and 2. What strategies and tactics were
you already familiar with? Which ones were new to you?
Third,
consider the information in the two articles. Do you agree with the claims
that “fake news” is an issue in terms of information literacy?What do
you make of the authors’ claims about the performative aspect of sharing false
information? Based on your experiences, do you think that schools are doing
what is necessary to teach web literacy? If not, what else needs to be done?
Your paper should be between
700-1000 words
Here is the links for the two
articles.
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