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Facts Matter

CILIP and the Information Literacy Group have launched a neat and nifty infographic on making informed political decisions, as part of the #FactsMatter initiative. This is intended to help with making informed choices, combating misinformation and supporting evidence-based voting in the UK General Election, on 8 June 2017. To be shared widely!

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16 May 2017

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    Oh look, the PM in a school library! Does he actually know what that is? And will it still be around this time next year?

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    Another shocking but sadly unsurprising example of the commodification of public service provision. I gather that @JonAshworth will be raising this in Parliament asap on behalf of the Labour Opposition @NickPoole1

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    A very neat lexicon by @tommyshane about the psychology of misinformation. It's in 3 parts (go to the site's home page to find the other 2), each covering key concepts on why we're vulnerable to misinformation, why it's hard to correct & how to prevent it https://firstdraftnews.org/latest/the-psychology-of-misinformation-why-were-vulnerable/

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    Blog by @jsecker & I on recent H of Lords report: “A country’s education system needs to prepare its people for their role as citizens. In the digital world, this means they need to be empowered to be critical, digitally literate consumers of information” https://www.informall.org.uk/blog/digital-technology-resurrection-of-trust/

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    Quick follow-up to today's @theRSAor webinar on schools in the community, for anyone keen to see school education system evolve to foster citizenship, critical thinking & information/media literacy - this might be of interest #RSAbridges @LauraJPartridge https://www.informall.org.uk/news/il-school-education/

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