Empowering Yourself in a Post-Truth World
Navigate the post-truth era: Develop critical thinking and metaliteracy skills to discern fact from fiction
Navigate the post-truth era: Develop critical thinking and metaliteracy skills to discern fact from fiction
This course empowers learners to navigate the challenges of a post-truth world where facts and expertise are often displaced by subjective biases and uninformed opinions. Using the metaliteracy framework, students learn to recognize their own biases, evaluate information critically, and become reflective consumers and responsible producers of information. The curriculum covers topics such as identifying experts and authority, building trust online, analyzing false representations in media, and raising one's voice responsibly in digital environments. By the end of the course, learners will be equipped to address post-truth problems and contribute to reinventing a truthful world based on inclusive communities of trust.
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What you'll learn
Learn to address post-truth problems through metaliteracy
Evaluate personal biases and those of others when interacting with information
Develop skills to consume, produce, and share information responsibly and ethically
Understand the concepts of expertise and authority in information sources
Learn to build and participate in online communities of trust
Analyze false representations in constructed media
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9 assignments
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There are 6 modules in this course
This course, "Empowering Yourself in a Post-Truth World," is designed to equip learners with the skills and knowledge needed to navigate the challenges of a post-truth environment. The curriculum is divided into six modules: Empowering Yourself for the Post-Truth World, Who Are the Experts?, Can We Build Trust Online?, False Representations in Constructed Media, Raising and Sharing Our Voices, and Reinventing a Truthful World. Throughout these modules, students explore the concept of metaliteracy, which provides a framework for critical thinking and self-reflection in information consumption and production. The course emphasizes practical application, with learners engaging in discussions, self-assessments, and a final project where they envision how to reinvent a truthful world as empowered metaliterate learners.
Empowering Yourself for the Post-Truth World
Module 1 · 2 Hours to complete
Who Are the Experts?
Module 2 · 1 Hours to complete
Can We Build Trust Online?
Module 3 · 47 Minutes to complete
False Representations in Constructed Media
Module 4 · 52 Minutes to complete
Raising and Sharing Our Voices
Module 5 · 1 Hours to complete
Reinventing a Truthful World
Module 6 · 1 Hours to complete
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Instructors
Advocate for Metaliteracy and Arts Education at SUNY Empire State College
Dr. Thomas P. Mackey, Ph.D., is a Professor of Arts and Media at SUNY Empire State College, where his teaching and research center on metaliteracy as a pedagogical framework to empower learners as informed creators of digital information. He co-authored the pioneering book on metaliteracy, Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners (2014), alongside Trudi E. Jacobson, published by Neal-Schuman/ALA Publishing. In their subsequent work, Metaliterate Learning for the Post-Truth World (2019), Tom contributed the framing chapter titled “Empowering Metaliterate Learners for the Post-Truth World.” Together with Jacobson, he has also co-edited four influential books on faculty-librarian collaboration, including Teaching Information Literacy Online (2011).
Information Literacy Librarian
Kelsey O'Brien is an Assistant Librarian in the Information Literacy Department at the University at Albany, SUNY. Holding a Master’s in Library and Information Studies, she has prior experience as a high school library media specialist and a youth services librarian. Her research interests include gamification, micro-credentialing, and creative publication tools. She is currently working on developing content for the Metaliteracy Badging System, an Open SUNY initiative that is growing in use as an open educational resource.
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