(2017-02-23) Caulfield Web Literacy For Student Fact Checkers Is Available

Mike Caulfield: Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers Is Out

Back before the election I was working on a book on the problems of living in “the stream” — this endless (Social Media) flow of stuff we read, retweet, and react to.

After the (Donald Trump) general election I felt both vindicated and weirdly distant. As I continued to work on the book it occurred to me that what the world needed, much more than a scholarly book or extended philippic, was a textbook or field guide that explained how to survive in this world of viral information flows and social media firehoses.

So in November I switched gears and began to write a textbook for Web Literacy that focused on the question of what web literacy for stream culture looked like.

It’s still rough and unfinished in places, but it’s in a shape that’s suitable for classroom use.