Thursday, September 19, 2024

New articles: Using visual clues to evaluate information; Questioning AI

Photo by Sheila Webber looking upwards and showing a building either side with a hanging basket sticking out in London in August 2024

- Reicho, M. & Otrel-Cass, K. (2024). In Pictures We Trust: Evaluating Digital Information and Disinformation with Phenomenon-based Learning in Secondary Schools. Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy. https://doi.org/10.1163/23644583-bja10059. An interesting report of research into teenagers' information behaviour, from observations in 6 Austrian schools. Embedded in the article are 6 videos highlighting different aspects of the findings e.g. how the students judged trustworthiness from the look of the websites; "accelerated information processing" (copy-pasting from the search results list, using ChatGPT) (open access article)

- Caico, M., Harris, L., & O’Shea, S. (2024). Is This AI Tool Right for Me? Important Questions from the Framework. College & Research Libraries News, 85(8), 341-346. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.85.8.341 The "Framework" is the ACRL Information Literacy Framework. (open access article)
Photo by Sheila Webber: London street, August 2024

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