Monday, March 31, 2025

Recent articles

photo of pale and dark magnolia blossoms against a sunny blue sky
From the priced journal Journal of Documentation, some information behaviour articles in the last 2 complete issues include:
- Chen, X., Lin, A. and Webber, S. (2025). "We do not always enjoy surprises”: investigating artificial serendipity in an online marketplace context. Journal of Documentation, 81(2), 403-422. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-01-2024-0011 Open access at https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/220256/
- Yerbury, H. and Henninger, M. (2025). Knowing and not knowing about algorithms. Journal of Documentation, 81(2), 301-312. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-04-2024-0076 "A practice-based study of university librarians and their role in the development of algorithmic literacy, using semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis, showed that they had limited socio-technical knowledge of algorithms."
- Bogers, T., Gäde, M., Koolen, M., Petras, V. and Skov, M. (2025). Understanding complex casual leisure information needs: an analysis of search requests for books, games, movies and music. Journal of Documentation, 81(1), 168-194. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-03-2024-0070 "In this paper, we introduce the CRISPS (CRoss-domaIn relevance aSPects Scheme) coding scheme for complex information needs in the four leisure domains of books, games, movies and music. It categorizes the relevance aspects people consider when searching for these resources." Their codebook is here https://zenodo.org/records/11638932
- Benton, L. and Sexton, A. (2025). Long-term needs, long-term access? Major crime recordkeeping and the information needs of individuals bereaved by homicide. Journal of Documentation, 81(1), 86-106. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-04-2024-0075 "The findings indicate that the long-term information needs of homicide bereaved individuals are ill-served by the current police recordkeeping framework ... the research demonstrates a long term need for: (1) information access; (2) support for access; (3) a direct and personalised information access service and (4) trauma-informed and victim/survivor centred practice in police recordkeeping contexts."
- Du, X. and Costello, K.L. (2025). Information snowballing: information practices in the context of sustainable food practices. Journal of Documentation, 81(2), 469-490. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-08-2024-0200 "The findings identify three stages of information snowballing: (a) learning by lifelong exposure and serendipitous information encountering; (b) constructing information landscapes; and (c) snowballing or gradually accumulating information."
Photo by Sheila Webber; Magnolia blossoms, March 2025

Sunday, March 30, 2025

AI and Health Information Literacy among Women in South Asia

pink and white magnolia blossom against a blue sky
AI and Health Information Literacy: A Study Exploring the Perceived Usefulness and Readiness among Women in South Asia is one of the projects funded last year by the Institute for Information Literacy at Purdue (IILP), Purdue University, USA. The researchers on the project are: Md. Anwarul Islam (Professor, Department of Information Science and Library Management, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh); Bhakti Gala (Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Gujarat, India); Aminath Riyaz (Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, The Maldives National University, Maldives); Raj Kumar Bhardwaj (Librarian, University of Delhi, India); and Tabassum Aslam (Academic Librarian, Lahore School of Economics, Punjab, Pakistan). There is an article about it:
Islam, M.A., Gala, B., Riyaz, A., Bhardwaj, R.K., & Aslam, T. (2024). Exploring women’s health information literacy with AI: A south asian study. Information Matters, 4(12). https://informationmatters.org/2024/12/exploring-womens-health-information-literacy-with-ai-a-south-asian-study/
There is also brief information, together with information about information about other 2024 award recipients at https://lib.purdue.edu/iilp/research-grants/
Photo by Sheila Webber; Magnolia (at its peak this weekend!), March 2025

Friday, March 28, 2025

Call for papers: Refugee learners risking and resisting (in)visibility in and through lifelong learning

purple and white crocuses  with a notice asking people not to tread on the spring bulbs

There is a call for papers from the International Review of Education for a special issue on Refugee learners risking and resisting (in)visibility in and through lifelong learning. The deadline for abstracts is 1 August 2025. The highlighted themes are: Navigating precarity; Lifelong learning, vulnerability, and nationalist backlash; Structural racism and sexism in lifelong learning; Hidden in plain sight; Challenging precarity; Lifelong learning as resistance.
Information Literacy isn't mentioned, but information behaviour and information literacy have relevance to a number of those themes.
More information at https://www.uil.unesco.org/en/articles/call-abstracts-special-issue-international-review-education-0
Photo by Sheila Webber: another crocus picture from earlier this month, March 2025

Thursday, March 27, 2025

Using Canva

lots and lots of purple and white crocuses on green grass

Some people use Canva for information literacy teaching, so you might be interested in:
- 25 April 2025. 12.00-13.00 BST. Creating amazing video content with Canva - a librarian's Power Hour. Led by  Bev Humphrey. "Canva offers many video templates to help you create videos suitable for a range of platforms, including TikTok and Instagram." Cost £35. Info & Register at https://tinyurl.com/3yzc2e39
- 20 June 2025. 12.00-13.00 BST. Perfect presentations created in Canva – a Power Hour Led by  Bev Humphrey. "Are you looking to up your game when creating presentations? If so Canva is definitely the right tool for you!" Cost £35. Info & Register at https://tinyurl.com/35abnuv5
Photo by Sheila Webber: crocuses earlier in March, 2025.

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Revised Metaliteracy Goals and Objectives: Empowering Learners for Generative AI

A revision of the Metaliteracy Goals and Learning Objectives was released this month, taking into account developments such as widespread use of generative AI. There are four goals
Goal 1: Reflect on your identity as an active learner within evolving information environments
Goal 2: Critically evaluate and ethically produce information, reflecting on your roles and impact across platforms.
Goal 3: Contribute informed and ethical perspectives in collaborative social settings.
Goal 4: Develop continuous learning strategies through a metaliterate mindset.
There are also four domains (Affective, Behavioral, Cognitive, Metacognitive) which the objectives within each goal are mapped to.
There is an English and a Spanish language version, and a Portuguese version is promised.
Go to https://metaliteracy.org/2025/03/11/finalized-2025-metaliteracy-goals-and-objectives-empowering-learners-for-generative-ai/

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Healthcare workers informal use of personal mobile phones

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An interesting project which is showcased (& partially supported by) and being discussed by the HIFA (Healthcare Information For All) community at the moment: mHealth-Innovate: Exploring healthcare workers informal use of personal mobile phones - Research findings and implications for policy and practice. The researchers did a systematic review and carried out qualitative studies in Uganda. "Informal use" means that healthcare workers are using their own personal phones to carry out various functions to do with caring for patients.
There is a short video (n.b. the embedded video tells me I need to sign into Vimeo, but if you follow the link to https://zenodo.org/records/15012090 you don't have to sign in) and a summary report.
Obviously this gives a lot of insight into information behaviour etc. and it is international in scope.
Go to https://www.hifa.org/news/mhealth-innovate-exploring-healthcare-workers-informal-use-personal-mobile-phones-research
Image created by Sheila Webber using Midjourney AI

Monday, March 24, 2025

Open online meeting: Media and Information Literacy Community of Practice in Scotland

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The Media and Information Literacy Community of Practice in Scotland (MILCOP) is holding an open meeting on 27 March 2024, 2pm-4pm GMT. Presentations will include:
- Fact Checking at The Ferret
- The Role of Universities in The Ethical Digital Nation (St Andrews University)
- Training Public Library Staff on Health Information

Register at https://www.cilips.org.uk/events/info-lit-in-scotland/

Sunday, March 23, 2025

Place of googling in writing news stories

a park, with trees on either side and in the middle with winter branches and under the middle tree is a huge circle of purple crocuses

Rupar, V., Myllylahti, M., Jones, H-G., Li, W., Mohaghegh, M. & Parisa, P. (2022). Googling it: While news search results can affect newsrooms’ perception of social issues, journalists mainly rely on it for complementary information. Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture, 13(3), 253-273. https://doi.org/10.1386/iscc_00064_1 (open access).
I thought this was interesting as evidence in the scope of online news coverage sourced via search engines, as well as giving insights into journalistic practice "Our study highlights the significant role of search engines, particularly Google, in shaping the journalistic newsgathering process and, consequently, public understanding of social issues. The computer-assisted analysis of Google’s ‘recession’ news selection revealed distinct patterns in the distribution of news content and geographical bias towards the United States within the selection algorithm. Ethnographic research at one Auckland newsroom revealed that Google Search is a fundamental tool for journalists, albeit used primarily for basic information-gathering and fact-checking rather than in-depth investigative work." (NB, although the "publication date" is 2022, it says the article was actually received in 2024, and this is the latest issue of the journal).
Photo by Sheila Webber: the crocus circle, March 2025

Saturday, March 22, 2025

Webinar: Responsible AI Use: Applying the CARE-AI Framework to Real-World Scenarios - and - Evaluating with AI

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Some items picked up from the Canadian Contact North's newsletter :
- Free webinar on 10 April 2025 at 13.00-14.00 Toronto time (which is e.g. 18.00-19.00 BST): Responsible AI Use: Applying the CARE-AI Framework to Real-World Scenarios. "Using real world examples, you’ll learn to apply the principles of CARE-AI (Creating Accountable and Responsive Ethics for Artificial Intelligence) to scenarios involving AI use in educational contexts." Information and registration link at https://teachonline.ca/webinar/responsible-ai-use-applying-care-ai-framework-real-world-scenarios
- Hardmann, P. (2025, March 10). AI-Powered Evaluation. https://drphilippahardman.substack.com/p/ai-powered-evaluation Hardmann uses the ADDIE model of learning design (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation), focusing on the E for evaluation, and suggests ways AI could be used (e.g. to identify an evaluation tool, to conduct post-education interviews with learners, to develop a persona to give evaluation prior to doing the teaching). There are a number of interesting ideas, though I also would want to be cautious (e.g. I would find it difficult to construct one persona that captured characteristics of my students (also, if they found out might the students find that a bit spooky?) and also I would advise against feeding qualitative data from student evaluations and interviews into a gen AI unless you were positive you knew what would happen to that data. I agree with Hardmann's final message "AI needs you (and you need instructional design expertise)—in order to get the most from AI, you need to understand what to ask it to do, and how to assess the quality of its output."
Photo by Sheila Webber: beautifully designed branches and leaves, March 2025

Thursday, March 20, 2025

AI performance at citing news

mostly white and some mauve crocuses in the grass taken from above

Jaźwińska, K. & Chandrasekar, A. (2025, March 6). AI Search Has A Citation Problem. Columbia Journalism Review. https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php Spoiler alert "We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News."
"We randomly selected ten articles from each publisher, then manually selected direct excerpts from those articles for use in our queries. After providing each chatbot with the selected excerpts, we asked it to identify the corresponding article’s headline, original publisher, publication date, and URL" They were excerpts that would have found the right item with a Google search.
Also, this caught my eye: Scott, L. (2025, March 18). The Last Days at Voice of America. Columbia Journalism Review. https://www.cjr.org/first_person/last-days-voice-of-america-voa-trump-kari-lake.php
Photo by Sheila Webber: a few crocuses, March 2025

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Webinar: AI and Higher Education teaching

The UK's Information Literacy Group (ILG) have organised a webinar on 1 April 2025 at 15.00-16.30 BST: AI and Higher Education teaching. It is free to CILIP members and £5 to others.
"this event will be an opportunity for Librarians to hear about how others are teaching AI literacy, and how they are engaging with staff and student concerns surrounding AI." The speaker is Michael Flierl (Associate Professor and Student Learning Librarian at Ohio State University, USA) and the session is chaired by Jane Secker (Deputy Chair of ILG and Associate Professor in Educational Development at City St George’s University of London, UK). There will also be short presentations from librarians about their practice with AI in HE.
Register at https://buytickets.at/cilipinformationliteracygroup/1551995

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Media and Information Literacy (MIL) in Latin America and the Caribbean

Vol. 12 No. 2 (2024) of the open access Journal of Latin American Communication Research focuses on Media and Information Literacy (the introduction is here): articles (available in Spanish and English) include:
- Challenges for Media and Information Literacy (MIL) policies in Latin America and the Caribbean by Rosa M. González
- Media and Information Literacy in Latin America and the Caribbean. Challenges and opportunities of an unequal region by Silvia Bacher
- The Pillars of Media and Information Literacy in Times of Artificial Intelligence by Janneth Trejo-Quintana, Alexandre Sayad
- MIL and Democracy in Latin America. Lessons from independent journalism: An overview of Mexico and Brazil by Carolina Montiel Navarro, Laura Martínez Águila
- A Continent to be Known - A comparative perspective between two Civil Society Organizations dedicated to Media and Information Literacy (MIL) in Latin America by Manuel-Antonio Monteagudo, Francisco González
- Media and Information Literacy and Alternative Media by Hugo Maguey
- Contemporary challenges of MIL: Towards an education for emancipation by José Manuel Corona-Rodríguez, Guillermo Orozco Gómez
- Media and Information Literacy Research in Latin America by Eva Da Porta, Paula Morabes
Go to https://www.journal.pubalaic.org/index.php/jlacr
Photo by Sheila Webber: bee on rhododendron, March 2025

Monday, March 17, 2025

UNESCO MIL Alliance newsletter

UNESCO's Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Alliance logo
UNESCO's Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Alliance published their newsletter 2 weeks ago. Particularly interesting are the short reports from different regions of the world, highlighting local iniatives past and future.
Go to  https://www.canva.com/design/DAGevXDsUCI/XQf7Z7UfOJkD_Oe-jZuVVg/view?

Sunday, March 16, 2025

Media Literacy is Freedom

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A short article describes UNESCO's campaign in Ukraine collaborating with Detector Media, Media Literacy is Freedom. It includes videos and "the dissemination of simple media literacy rules and the promotion of critical thinking, delivered by well-known Ukrainian bloggers, actors, and journalists on social media". Story at https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/unescos-campaigns-media-and-information-literacy-empower-millions-ukraine-think-critically
Photo by Sheila Webber: daffodil clump, March 2025

Saturday, March 15, 2025

Information literacy teaching

The photo of from l to r Dr Joseph Essel, Sheila Webber, Dr Syeda Shahid, Dr Kondwani Wella
For Saturday, a link to a little feature on my friend, & Sheffield iSchool alumna, Dr Syeda Shahid, talking about her work at Towson University, USA, https://www.towson.edu/news/articles/2025/teaching-information-literacy-to-the-next-generation.html
The photo is from 10 years ago taken at the i3 conference in Aberdeen: l to r, Dr Joseph Essel, me, Dr Syeda Shahid, Dr Kondwani Wella

Thursday, March 13, 2025

Call for proposals: posters at #WLIC2025

many poster boards either side of a narrow aisle with people form many countries looking at the boards and chatting at the 2023 IFLA conference

Another IFLA WLIC call! They invite proposals for posters to be presented in person at the conference (taking place in Astana, Kazakhstan, 18-22 August 2025). Deadline is 1 April 2025. From personal experience, the poster exhibition (19-20 August) is very substantial and your poster gets a lot of attention (there are numerous aisles like the one in the photo from 2023's conference). There are always numerous information literacy posters!
The conference theme is Uniting Knowledge, Building the Future and they say
"As IFLA holds the Congress in Central Asia for the first time, we have a unique opportunity to bring all aspects of the profession together to share and learn. The availability of knowledge is essential to building the future of our societies. Libraries share, libraries combine, libraries preserve different formats of knowledge – oral, print, digital.
Please specify how your project or library activities bring together knowledge that contributes locally, regionally or globally to our societal future. Describe what you have done to achieve results through collaboration, partnerships or increasing sustainability?"
More information here https://2025.ifla.org/home/call-for-posters/
Photo credits: Vesna Vuksan (2023). Poster Sessions: 22-23 August 2023. https://flic.kr/p/2oXv7kv - used under a CC BY 2.0 license

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Call for papers: Integrating #AI in Information Literacy #WLIC2025

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There is a call for papers for the IFLA Information Literacy Section's session at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) taking place in Astana, Kazakhstan, 18-22 August 2025, with the theme Future Ready Libraries: Integrating AI in Information Literacy. Deadline for proposals is March 31 2025.
"Possible sub-themes may include, but are not limited to:
- policies, best practices, and issues with integrating AI information literacy instructionand/or programs in all types of libraries
- strategies to use AI to develop critical thinking and digital literacy skills
- the ethical implications of using AI
- AI literacy and its relationship with information literacy
- AI transforming how communities learn information literacy
- skills and pedagogical approaches needed to incorporate AI into information literacy programs"
"Each presentation will be 10 minutes. There will be a 10-minute Q&A to conclude the one-hour session." At least one of the authors has to present in person at WLIC. Full details at https://www.ifla.org/news/information-literacy-section-call-for-papers-wlic-2025-open-session-future-ready-libraries-integrating-ai-in-information-literacy/
Photo by Sheila Webber: keep off the croci, March 2025

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Survey: Learning Analytics in Academic Library Online Instruction

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If you are "academic librarians who capture, use data or are interested in learning analytics to support and assess the impact of their academic library online instruction / teaching employed by higher education academic libraries" you're invited take a survey on Use of Learning Analytics in Higher Education Academic Library Online Instruction. It closes on March 15 2025. The research study is undertaken by Simone Laughton, Head of Library & Instructional Technologies at the University of Toronto Mississauga Library, Canada. The survey is estimated to take "approximately 20 – 30 minutes to complete on average" and is at https://forms.office.com/r/uVZxFF1JPj.
Photo by Sheila Webber: crocus in the park 1, March 2025

Monday, March 10, 2025

Review of AI and education

A critical review published by the Ada Lovelace Institute & the Nuffield Foundation in January 2025, focusing on schools, but (I think) with application to other educational levels (and countries) is A landscape review of AI and education in the UK..
"Our aims were to bring greater clarity on the role of AI in schools, to support policy and educational experts to navigate these issues, and to highlight priorities for further research and policy".
Conclusions include " Education-specific AI tools are barely emergent"; "The evidence base is limited on the pedagogical efficacy of using AI in EdTech, whether for general learning and teaching, for SEND or for administration" and "The regulation and governance of AI in EdTech has not kept pace with the evolution of the products, leaving pupils and schools exposed to potentially risky technologies being deployed."
Samson, R & Pothong, K. (2025). Discussion paper: January 2025: A learning curve? A landscape review of AI and education in the UK. Ada Lovelace Institute. https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Ada-Lovelace-Institute-A-learning-curve.pdf
Photo by Sheila Webber: different type of landscape: crocus are in bloom, March 2025

Saturday, March 08, 2025

#IWD2025 celebrating women colleagues

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To celebrate International Women's Day, I highlight papers by women colleagues in the Information School, University of Sheffield (all open access). Firstly, a report on health information literacy research that includes my colleagues Dr Pam Mckinney & Dr Laura Sbaffi:
McKinney, P., Sbaffi, L., Cox, A., Bath, P., Robinson, A. & Wiltshire, M. (2024). Health Information Literacy in Marginalised Communities: End of project report: Co-production workshops with the Sheffield Roma, Yemeni and Somali Communities. https://doi.org/10.15131/shef.data.25315672.v1 

Secondly, research on digital inclusion, with authors including colleagues Dr Sharon Wagg, Dr Bethany Aylward & Dr Sara Vannini:
Wagg, S., Vannini, S., Zammani, E., Klyshbekova, M. & Aylward, B. (2024). Digital inclusion network building: a network weaving analysis. UK Academy for Information Systems. Conference Proceedings 2024 https://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1020&context=ukais2024 "This paper aims to investigate digital inclusion network building as a mechanism for reducing digital poverty. Analysing a rural digital inclusion network in the UK, and drawing on Network Weaving Theory (Holley, 2013), this case study analyses how people’s roles and places play a big part in both the construction and growth of the network, as well as in the advancements of its initiatives. " 

Finally, one on EDI in usability testing, including colleagues Dr Sophie Rutter & Dr Jo McKenna-Aspell:
Rutter, S., Zamani, E., McKenna-Aspell, J. & Wang, Y. (2024). Embedding equality, diversity and inclusion in usability testing: Recommendations and a research agenda. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 188, Article 103278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2024.103278

Friday, March 07, 2025

Alfamed

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Alfamed is a network of Hispanic researchers in South America and Europe, focused on media literacy "The main concern of the network is creating collaborative research related to communication and education. Specifically, media literacy of citizenship; education & media literacy" with a cross disciplinary perspective. The website at https://www.redalfamed.org/copia-de-inicio has numerous Spanish-language resources (and also Portuguese, but more Spanish), including, for example, the substantial proceedings of their 2024 conference

Thursday, March 06, 2025

Research methods: using GenAI as a tool; Using an online map in interviews; Co-experiencing photos

a wall and ground floor windows of a building and the shadow of a tree seems to sprout from the top of a waste bin

Glessmer, M. S., & Forsyth, R. (2025). Superficially plausible outputs from a black box: Problematising genAI tools for analysing qualitative SoTL aata. Teaching and Learning Inquiry, 13, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.13.4 [SoTL = Scholarhip of Teaching & Learning] Spoiler alert: the authors indeed discovered some problems! Open access - as are the following two articles.

Watson, A., & Kirby, E. (2025). Affective routes in interviews: Participants exploring a digital map as a live elicitation method. Qualitative Research, 25(1), 243-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941241245961. " In this article we discuss participant-led explorations of a digital story-mapping platform as an elicitation technique in qualitative interviews. This platform is Queering the Map, a community-generated counter-mapping project that digitally archives queer moments in place." Engaging insights, for example in the emergence of "generative silence" in the sessions. 

Rowsell, J. (2025). Affecting photos: Photographs as shared, affective ethnographic spaces. Qualitative Research, 25(1), 207-226. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941241246173 Co-experience connects this article to the previous one (in this article, photos, in the previous one, map exploration).
Photo by Sheila Webber: catching the moment when the tree's shadow aligned with the recycling bin.... February 2025

Wednesday, March 05, 2025

Registration open: #CALC25

You can now register for the online Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference (CALC2025) 13-15 May 2025 (in the UK time zone, BST). Tickets are a very reasonable £15, and you can also choose to buy a ticket to be donated to someone from an underrepresented and/or marginalised community.
Lots of interesting presentations and workshops e.g. Libraries and care-experienced young people; The things you see us carry: critiques of the Human Library; Friendly, radical and ambivalent: fat librarians and professional identity; A health library in Africa: self-reflections on colonialism and white supremacy; Looking for help: exploring the information behaviour of survivors of sexual assault.
Keynotes are Sacha Coward and Teresa Helena Moreno.
Go to https://sites.google.com/view/calcconference/calc2025

Tuesday, March 04, 2025

Students using generative AI tools for academic writing

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Issue 34 (2025) of the open-access Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education (JLDHE) has been published. I will highlight an article that details how a sample of 30 students used different AI tools in the early stages of assignment-writing:
Johnston, H., Eaton, M., Henry, I., Deeley, E.-M., & Parsons, B. N. (2025). Discovering how students use generative artificial intelligence tools for academic writing purposes. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, (34). https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi34.1301
"The aim of this project was to identify ways in which students are using Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) technologies for the planning and researching stage of essay style assignments. The study recruited 30 students from various subject areas and levels of study and with different self-reported levels of confidence in using GAI tools. Each student was given three essay questions to choose from and 50 minutes to research their topic, make notes from sources, and put together an essay plan, using GAI tools if they deemed them useful. .. 21 (70%) used GAI technologies within their process." 
The whole of JLDHE issue 34 is at https://journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jldhe/issue/view/50
Photo by Sheila Webber: signs of spring last week, hazel catkins, February 202
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Monday, March 03, 2025

Media Viability Manifesto

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This report aims at identifying how "financially and editorially independent and diverse media" can be sustained. It is supported by 13 organisations, including UNESCO, Deutsche Welle Akademie, Fondation Hirondelle and IMS (International Media Support). 
"The Media Viability Manifesto (MVM) provides an urgently needed common framework for joint action from the global media development community. Its aim is three pronged: To foster conceptual clarity, to strengthen strategic collaboration between multiple stakeholders, and to align practical implementation in the field of Media Viability. The MVM is the culmination of input from 152 individuals from 55 countries and 86 organizations."
Go to https://mediaviabilitymanifesto.org/ - it is available in English, Spanish, French and Arabic It was launched with a panel session in January 2025, the recording is here https://youtu.be/wNmbv04XebE?si=RrSdLnQgtmayjxhY

Sunday, March 02, 2025

Report: Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science

A pertinent 2024 publication for current times by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science. The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/27894
"Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science characterizes the nature, scope, and impacts of this phenomenon, and provides guidance on interventions, policies, and future research. This report is a comprehensive assessment of the available evidence and reflects a systems view of the problem given the broader historical and contemporary contexts that shape the lived experiences of people and their relationships to information. The report aims to illuminate the impacts of misinformation about science and potential solutions across a diversity of individual peoples, communities, and societies."
The chapters in this 300+ page publication are: Defining Misinformation About Science; Misinformation About Science: Understanding the Current Context; Sources of misinformation about science; Spred of misinformation about science; Impacts of misinformation about science; Intervening to address misinformation about science; The study of misinformation about science; Conclusions, recommendations and research agenda.
Photo by Sheila Webber: On the Heath v2 (I couldn't decide whether I preferred the version from under the tree (see previous post), or this one, February 2025