MLA Guide to Digital Literacy by Carillo, Ellen C.;

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Updated edition empowering students with practical strategies to evaluate online content, spot fake news, and analyze data. It guides learners in navigating social media and research tools while tackling ethical challenges, deepfakes, and the evolving media landscape with engaging, hands-on activities.

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Updated edition with AI Guidance providing students with hands-on strategies for digital literacy.

The third edition of this best-selling classroom guide helps students understand why digital literacy is a crucial skill for their education, future careers, and participation in democracy. Offering practical guidance for assessing information online, this guide provides students with the tools to locate reliable sources among the clickbait and viral videos that pervade the web. The guide's hands-on activities, germane readings, and lesson plans give students strategies for reading and analyzing data visualizations; finding and evaluating credible sources; learning how to spot fake news; fact-checking; crafting a research question; effectively conducting searches on Google and on library catalogs and databases; finding peer-reviewed publications; evaluating primary sources; and understanding disinformation and misinformation, filter bubbles, propaganda, and satire in a variety of sources?including websites, social media posts, infographics, videos, and more, on platforms like Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.

New to the third edition:

? a chapter on generative AI (GenAI) including information on how GenAI is trained, uses of GenAI tools, GenAI-powered search engines, prompting GenAI, and evaluating GenAI output

? a consideration of ethical issues related to GenAI, including impacts on the environment and on intellectual property, privacy, and bias in searches

? a discussion of GenAI and plagiarism

? an updated discussion of deepfakes, fake headlines, and other forms of misinformation

? student exercises on using GenAI

? a lesson plan that invites students to reflect on the benefits and limitations of using GenAI to support their reading practices

Updated with AI Guidance

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Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Preface for Instructors

Why Digital Literacy?

Features of This Guide

New to the Third Edition

The Crucial Role of Librarians

1. What Is Digital Literacy?

Principles That Inform This Guide

How This Guide Is Organized

2. Understanding Filters and Algorithms, Bots, and Visual Manipulation

Filters and Algorithms

Algorithmic Bias

Bots

Visual Manipulation

Read about It

""The Polarization of Extremes,"" by Cass R. Sunstein

3. Understanding Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Tools

What is GenAI?

How Is GenAI Trained?

Uses of GenAI Tools

GenAI and Reading

Search Engines and Additional Research Tools Powered by GenAI

Prompting GenAI

Evaluating GenAI Output

Ethical Considerations Surrounding GenAI

TRY IT

1. Ponder the benefits and limits of GenAI.

2. Research and try out a GenAI tool.

3. Practice prompting a text-based GenAI tool.

4. Create an image using GenAI.

5. Use a GenAI tool to locate sources.

4. Understanding Online Searches

What Is the Difference between the World Wide Web and the Internet?

Understanding Domain Names

Scholarly Peer Review

TRY IT

1. Represent the relation between the Internet and the World Wide Web.

2. Practice keeping track of your daily website visits.

3. Test your knowledge of domain names.

4. Ponder the role of domain names in judging credibility.

5. Review types of online information sources.

5. Conducting Online Research

Choosing Keywords to ""Catch the Tenor"" of the Conversation

Conducting Broad Searches

Conducting Narrow Searches

Navigating Google Scholar

Practicing Inclusive Search and Citation Habits

Using a Search Engine's Help Features

Searching Library Catalogs and Databases

Reviewing Your Search Results

Determining a Source's Relevance

TRY IT

1. Contemplate your role in source-driven writing.

2. Understand relevance.

3. Recognize the value of inclusive search and citation practices.

4. Practice documenting a broad search.

5. Practice narrowing online searches.

6. Go to the (Primary) Source!

What Are Primary and Secondary Sources?

I Found the Primary Source?Now What?

TRY IT

1. Practice finding primary sources.

2. Practice distinguishing primary sources from secondary sources.

3. Practice rhetorical reading.

4. Compose a rhetorical analysis of a visual source.

5. Practice writing a twenty-five-word summary.

7. Surveying the Conversation by Reading Laterally

What Is Reading Laterally?

Lateral and Vertical Reading Compared

Planning Where to Go Next

Understanding Your Biases and Emotional Responses As You Read Laterally

Recognizing Psychological Phenomena As You Read

TRY IT

1. Understand what it means to read laterally.

2. Practice reading laterally.

3. Practice recognizing your emotional responses to sources.

4. Address the implications of psychological phenomena on your research.

8. Exploring the Credibility of Sources

Exploring an Author's Credibility

Exploring a Source's Credibility through Publication Context

Recognizing Bias: A Closer Look

What about the Credibility of Wikipedia and Other Wikis?

Can GenAI Technologies Like ChatGPT Help Me Find Credible Sources?

Recognizing Misinformation and Disinformation

TRY IT

1. Practice determining an author's credibility.

2. Practice determining sources' biases.

3. Pay attention to an author's word choice.

4. Notice labeling.

5. Explore Wikipedia.

Read about It

""A Real History of Fake News,"" by John Maxwell Hamilton and Heidi Tworek

9. Working with Your Sources

How to Use Sources

Synthesizing Your Sources

Avoiding Plagiarism

TRY IT

1. Explore how an author uses sources.

2. Explore how an author contributes ideas to a conversation.

3. Practice using sources for more than support.

4. Annotate to reflect on your use of sources.

5. Conduct research about how a discipline uses sources.

10. Additional Strategies and Resources

Fact-Checking Websites and Chatbots

Conducting Reverse Searches

GenAI Resources

TRY IT

1. Ponder the uses of reverse searches.

2. Practice conducting a reverse image search.

3. Practice using fact-checking sites.

4. Locate other fact-checking sites and determine their biases.

5. Determine hoaxes.

11. Composing in Digital Spaces

Drawing on What You Already Know about Digital Composition

Creating Multimodal Projects in Digital Spaces

Rhetorical Considerations for Multimodal Composing in Digital Spaces

Additional Considerations for Composing in Digital Spaces

TRY IT

1. Identify the five modes of communication.

2. Practice working with the modes of communication.

3. Practice conveying a visual argument.

4. Understand accessibility.

5. Define Creative Commons licensing.

12. Customizing Your Online Experience

Adjusting Your Preferences

Making Informed Decisions about Social Media Platforms

Using Sharing, Liking, and Other Social Signals to Your Advantage

Avoiding Clickbait

TRY IT

1. Ponder the value of customizing your online experience.

2. Research social media platforms.

3. Practice adjusting filters

4. Develop clickbait headlines.

5. Recognize how clickbait works.

Appendix: Sample Lesson Plans

Lesson Plan 1: Searching for Sources and Analyzing Their Credibility

Lesson Plan 2: Reading Sources

Lesson Plan 3: Exploring the Concept of Fake News

Lesson Plan 4: Understanding Algorithmic Bias and Personalization

Lesson Plan 5: Reading Rhetorically with GenAI

Works Cited

Index