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Bodybag Jones @daydreamcomix.com · 1d

Sure, it’s an Auntie who uses Facebook type meme, but damn it this means something to me.

The iconic breakfast club poster with all the heads photoshopped to the three iconic masks from Halloween 3, Tom Atkins, and Stacey Nelkin.

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Michelle Markel @michellemarkel.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant thread. No more "consensus of truth." And a therapist tells me she's got many young clients (mostly boys) who've got depression & social anxiety from staying home and obsessively consuming social media.

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Michelle Markel @michellemarkel.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant thread about guiding kids in their processing of social media!

Library Girl @jenniferlagarde.bsky.social · 1d

When @dhudgins.bsky.social and I created this “Credibility Pyramid” 4 yrs ago, we were taken to task by educators who couldn’t let go of “source” as the sacred cow of #infolit. Now, I see many of those same ppl lamenting that they can no longer teach kids that .gov websites are trustworthy.

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Illustration titled “The Digital Detective’s Credibility Pyramid.” Three tiers show: top, Information; middle, Source; bottom, Platform. Text explains that credibility should be judged by the information itself, not by who shared it or where it appeared.

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Library Girl @jenniferlagarde.bsky.social · 1d

My current WIP dives much more deeply into all of this. I’m working as fast as I can to get it to you. In the meantime, over the yrs, I’ve created many, many resources to support educators in this work. Some can be found here: www.librarygirl.net/post/everyth...
I hope you find them helpful.

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🎶 Everything Has Changed: Shaking Up Your #MediaLit Lessons!

Back in January, Heather Turner and I began moderating educator chats for Teacher Librarians (and those who love them!) over on Bluesky. It's been so much fun and it reminds me a lot of the "golden ag...

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Library Girl @jenniferlagarde.bsky.social · 1d

All of that said, I recognize the barriers that make teaching these ideas and in this way very challenging. I get how exhausting & disheartening it all feels right now. AND I know that those benefit from an ignorant, radicalized populace want us to feel that way.

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Library Girl @jenniferlagarde.bsky.social · 1d

4️⃣ ALL learners need to be taught to regulate their emotional response to online content so that they are in control of their engagement.

And…

5️⃣ As learners get older, they need to be taught the brain chemistry related to this and the role of dopamine in our online lives.

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Library Girl @jenniferlagarde.bsky.social · 1d

2️⃣ ALL learners need to be taught what social media engagement is (it’s a lot more than double tapping y’all) and that engagement has consequences - for themselves and for others.

3️⃣ ALL learners need to be taught to notice when content sparks big feelings that affect their urge to engage.

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Library Girl @jenniferlagarde.bsky.social · 1d

So what’s the answer?

The longer I do this, the more I believe a few things:

1️⃣ ALL learners need to be taught that all media/info is created by a human (even AI generated content b/c a human created the AI and a human created the prompt) and humans have goals that often involve our emotions.

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Library Girl @jenniferlagarde.bsky.social · 1d

Can we still learn something from finding out who is behind the info we consume? Of course. But traditional #infolit strategies that focus on identifying the source and other “clues” (like the presence of clickbait) are useless in today’s dopamine driven information landscape.

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Library Girl @jenniferlagarde.bsky.social · 1d

All of this is both the result of, and complicated by, the fact that we all get info from revenue biased, social media platforms that exploit our emotions in order to monetize our attention, our engagement and, in some cases, our radicalization.

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Library Girl @jenniferlagarde.bsky.social · 1d

For better or worse, we live in a time when source is polarizing.

If I were to post an article from the NYT, some ppl would automatically trust it b/c of how they feel about the source. Others would dismiss it for the exact same reason. The same for a video from Fox News or The White House.

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Library Girl @jenniferlagarde.bsky.social · 1d

When @dhudgins.bsky.social and I created this “Credibility Pyramid” 4 yrs ago, we were taken to task by educators who couldn’t let go of “source” as the sacred cow of #infolit. Now, I see many of those same ppl lamenting that they can no longer teach kids that .gov websites are trustworthy.

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