Unit 2: Assignment #1

1. To appreciate why it's important for you, a 21st-century college student, to become more digitally literate, read this excerpt from Ventimiglia and Pullman's (2016) article, "From Written to Digital: The New Literacy."
2. To further appreciate why it's important for any 21st-century citizen to become more digitally literate, read Silverman and Singer-Vine's (2016) article, "Most Americans Who See Fake News Believe It, New Survey Says."
3. Read Wineburg's (2016) overview of theStanford Digital Literacy study.
4. Test yourself on both thefirst set of example itemsandthe second set of example itemsfrom the Stanford Digital Literacy study. Make sure you read through all the examples of students' correct and incorrect answers (and why their answers were correct versus incorrect).
5. Read the following documents, each of which explains several steps for improving digital literacy. Make a list of all the steps. (You should have more than 20 steps on your list.) Although it might feel as though these documents re-mention some of the same steps, overlap and repetition are always helpful for learning, and each document explains some steps thatthe other articles don't.
   1. Inskeep's (2016) article, "A Finder's Guide to Facts"
   2. Green's (2017) article, "The Honest Truth about Fake News ... and How Not to Fall for It"
   3. Davis's (2016) article, "Fake or Real? How to Self-Check the News and Get the Facts"
   4. TheInternational Federation of Librarian Associations' (no date) Infographic
   5. Facebook's (no date) list of "Tips to Spot False News"
6. Go to theUnit2: Assignment #1 Discussion Boardand make a new post ofat least two hundred wordsin which you discuss the following:
   1. First, whichfivesteps for improving digital literacy were you theMOST familiarwith before reading these documents?
   2. Second, whichfivesteps were you theLEAST familiarwith before reading these documents?
   3. Third, whichfiveerrors that students made in the Stanford Digital Literacy study (illustrated in either the first or the second set of example items, or both)surprised you the LEAST- andwhydid those five errors surprise you the least?