How “News Literacy” Gets the Web Wrong

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How “News Literacy” Gets the Web Wrong
Michael Caulfield, Hapgood, 2017/03/07
Michael Caulfield astutely diagnoses what is wrong with a lot of the 'new literacy' guidelines for evaluating news reports on the web. These guidelines spend a lot of time urging students to assess the trustworthiness of the website, instead of getting to the source of the report being passed along. More...