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N° 130 - La bibliothèque scolaire, atelier d’abord, vitrine ensuite
“Chaque enfant mérite de bénéficier d’un projet de bibliothèque scolaire” est une phrase qui clôt la version Poster, donc abrégée, du Manifeste IFLA-UNESCO pour la bibliothèque scolaire dans sa version 2025, que j’ai lu avec une attention particulière, et pas seulement professionnelle. Une phrase qui interpelle par sa pure vérité. Je sais aussi ce que ça coûte à dire dans un collège…
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I do believe one of the most ironic twists in recent history is students being told never to cite Wikipedia to now wikipedia being the most reliant information source online not hidden behind a paywall. As someone who has tried to have a small article put up on Wikipedia, the requirements are brutal and citations are taken extremely seriously. It compiles a ton of information hidden behind research paywalls and summarizes it for people who don’t have access. For my capstone in college, I want to say at least a quarter to a half, including some of the most important primary sources, I found through Wikipedia articles. Other than primary sources or scholarly articles, Wikipedia really is a huge privilege of free verifiable information about fucking everything and is genuinely so underhyped.
Idk who needs to hear this, but I got my BA in history and currently getting my masters in Information Science which means I am very familiar with research. I guarantee 95% of the time, any article that states anything along the lines of “poll shows this group of people think this” or “new study shows this has a connection to that” are, at best, taken out of context, or, at worst flat out lying about what the study says.
Studies and surveys aren’t made for headlines. So when you see one in a title, I can say for certain that a large majority of the actual research being referenced is either being misquoted, sponsored/bias, purposefully misinterpreted, a study that does not following research guidelines, and or is specifically in the minority of studies that found a certain conclusion. Pro-tip, at the end of the study, there is a conclusion part which usually states if the specific study is an outlier or if further research needs to be done. When researchers get a result that’s a bit out there, they will say this in their conclusion. And I guarantee no news story will ever include that.
I genuinely believe one of the current largest threats to society is research literacy being hidden behind paywalls and not encouraged. I genuinely believe a lot of problems would be less severe/more cohesive conclusions if all people had access and understood research.
So yeah, for any of my anxiety baddies who freak out what they see those articles, know it is bullshit 95% of the time. Check if the article sources the study (if it doesn’t you know it’s bullshit) and try to find that conclusion. It is a live saver
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Navigating Information, Misinformation and AI
I recently attended a webinar by the News Literacy Project about Misinformation and AI, not knowing that it was geared towards K-12 educators.
For my beloved mutuals who ARE educators, here's the google doc of resources they shared and some other links!
Resource List Navigating Information, Misinformation and AI: Where do we start? Presentation slides Back to School resource hub: Start S
Common Sense Education provides educators and students with the resources they need to harness the power of technology for learning and life
The Sift® Newsletter An educator’s guide to the week in news literacy. Subscribe now Short on time? We’ve got you covered The news and infor
Helping you determine the credibility of info found online
getting baited by middle school statistics this really is the infinite chocolate website
Today in shitty information literacy: I just saw a post from a random Facebook user claiming to know without a doubt where the explosive diarrhea bacteria came from... and it gained nearly 5k notes in two days
citations? zero
credentials? zilch
reliable sources? nada
unnecessary finger-pointing? absolutely
What the hell, y'all 😒