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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2004
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ720683 |
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- Teaching Information Literacy Skills through Censorship and Freedom of Expression Keene, Leslie Media Specialists Information Skills Information Literacy Freedom of Speech Censorship School Libraries Search Strategies Units of Study Databases Information Retrieval Developing an awareness of the many aspects of censorship and how it affects their lives is a powerful experience for middle schoolers. Most young people will concede that their values have been shaped mostly by their families. They discover that studying censorship is a tool for forming their own opinions about issues. For library media specialists, it?s a vehicle for getting students to think for themselves and a hook for sparking enthusiasm about doing research. A unit on censorship, suited up or down for appropriateness, can be taught from the fifth grade on. This article describes a series of activities that may be used to teach these concepts, while reinforcing information literacy skills such as: (1) Using simple search strategies; (2) Narrowing down topics; (3) Using a variety of sources; (4) Differentiating between fact and opinion; (5) Recognizing all sides to an issue; (6) Retrieving information from an online news source database; and (7) Evaluating sources for timeliness, bias, accuracy, and misinformation. This article also includes a list of additional book, periodical, audio, video, and internet resources.