Tag: education

InformAll is one of two UK partners in BRIDGE, a new European project aimed at fostering information and digital literacy in primary schools. BRIDGE is a collaboration between partners in six countries […]

“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.” These couple of lines read like an extract from […]

InformAll is supporting an initiative to encourage the recognition of information literacy (IL) as a key pillar of school education in the UK. We are one of the initial signatories to a call for expressions of interest aimed at identifying stakeholders […]

InformAll is participating in a project on ‘Discovering and documenting England’s lost Jews’, exploring the history – much of it hidden – of the Sephardi Jews who started settling in England in the 17th century. The project is led by Pascal Theatre Company, and funded through a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund […]

On 1 October, I attended a workshop to present the findings of a project aimed at improving the fairness and transparency of online platform algorithms. The UnBias project, bringing together researchers from the universities of Oxford, Nottingham and Edinburgh

As previously reported here, the UK Parliament is running an inquiry into fake news. During 2017, the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee collected written submissions from interested parties. More recently, it has taken oral evidence; on 23 January, it invited three academics to provide a perspective with significant bearing on information […]

Researcher Development Framework and Seven Pillars of Information Literacy. During 2011, RIDLs – the initiative that preceded and laid the ground for InformAll – played a major role in ensuring […]