MLA Guide to Digital Literacy

by Ellen C. Carillo

Students face challenges assessing, responding to, and producing information in today's fast-paced, complex digital landscape. This guide helps students understand why digital literacy is a critically important skill: their education, future careers, and participation in democratic processes rely on it. Hands-on, structured activities give students strategies for evaluating the credibility of sources, detecting fake news, understanding bias, and more. Readings and writing prompts support specific concepts, including how to craft a research question and effectively conduct searches. An appendix contains three sample lesson plans.

Genres: Nonfiction

148 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2019

Reviews

[Paschalia · Rating 4 out of 5]

In general, a very nice short introduction in the dangers of the web and how to avoid them if you are a student. The only fault I’d say is that many times the author tries to combine two topics, one from Digital literacy and the other from essay writing, that do not make a coherent whole as a chapter.

[Z]

Academic Librarians, assemble! This brief, focused MLA publication neatly summarizes the information literacy and information evaluation theories and skills that are familiar to those of us teaching at the community college, accelerated degree program, early college entry program, and undergraduate level. Public Librarians in instructional and programming roles may also find much here that can be applied to their work. In my own work as a teaching librarian, I have occasionally used the instructional worksheets, blog posts, videos, and other materials available from the MLA website. This book, written in accessible language, would serve well as assigned course reading. The guide also covers research skills.
Combined with some of the Open Educational Resources (ACRL Sandbox, etc.) created by academic librarians, The MLA Guide to Digital Literacy could be part of a strong toolkit for those new to the job of teaching information literacy.

[Dustin Cox · Rating 3 out of 5]

While the guide provides a fair supply of valuable tips for vetting internet sources, most of the book is mere common sense that anyone thoughtful enough to read a book like this probably already uses. Could be quite valuable for middle school classrooms.