Digital Literacy | Speaking
News stories, videos, data, AI-altered content, and even memes – today’s students will need to know how to analyze and contextualize them all to thrive in the classroom and beyond. But they don’t arrive in our classrooms knowing fact from fiction – not without digital literacy’s help.
This month, we’re talking with Darren Hudgins, co-author of Developing Digital Detectives: Essential Lessons for Discerning Fact from Fiction in the ‘Fake News’ Era, about digital literacy’s growing importance in every content area. We’ll also dig into why educators need to focus on teaching digital literacy directly instead of passively – especially as AI-altered content becomes more prevalent in public life.
Digital Literacy | Speaking
Via The Future Ready Schools: Leading from the Library
The Importance of Developing Digital Detectives in a cesspool of mis, dis, and mal information. In this podcast, Darren Hudgins (@dhudgins) shares the importance of helping our young people understand the value of being digital detectives.
Digital Literacy | Speaking
Media and Its Impact on Social Emotional Learning
The HyperDoc crew introduces this podcast:
We connected with Darren Hudgins, educator/author/CEO. He even considers himself and educators as "social servants." Darren Hudgins moved me to think differently right away -- even in his introduction! It really struck me that how we introduce ourselves to others is a critical part of our identity. He wears many hats or titles that draw us into his work. His (along with Jennifer LaGarde) book, Fact vs. Fiction, provides educators with tools and resources to help students discern fact from fiction in the information they access not only at school but on the devices they carry in their pockets and backpacks. He identifies himself as “a curator of good thinking people” and a “purveyor of instructional strategies.” Don’t you want to hear more about his thinking and ideas?! We can’t wait to share with you just some of the wisdom and insight from this great thinker and human. Be sure to check out the entire interview with our HyperDoc community by watching this video:
Digital Literacy | Speaking
Ten Tips for Teaching Critical Thinking + Information Literacy
Check out the excellent recap/big ideas, or read the complete edited transcript here.
