Tag Archives: information literacy

(#Issue 470) A Reminder About Noise

Posted on May 26, 2019 by Steve Piscitelli

Are you adding to clarity or compounding the noise? How do you know? “The trouble with a great many of us is we know so many things that ain’t so.” -Josh Billings “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets … Continue reading →

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(#452) Cognitive Distortions

Posted on January 20, 2019 by Steve Piscitelli

Can you say, “fake news”? Or “leading statements”? Or “inferences based on limited information or examples”? In their book The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, Greg Lukianoff … Continue reading →

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(#433) Verifying Truth

Posted on September 9, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

You won’t find a step that says evaluate a source based on what “my group believes” or “who tweeted the most” or “how much I dislike a source.”  2012: Maybe it is the heat of the political campaign season. The … Continue reading →

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(#400) Do We Live In A Post-Fact World?

Posted on January 21, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

Perhaps we live in a time when the question to ponder becomes, “If a fact is offered and it is not ‘liked,’ is it a fact?” Have we morphed into a post-fact world, as one source states, “in which virtually … Continue reading →

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(#368) Fake, Illegitimate Or Incomplete Information?

Posted on June 11, 2017 by Steve Piscitelli

Just because you find a lot of information does not mean you have found accurate or credible information If, as famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright claimed, “An expert is a man who stops thinking because he knows,” then can we say … Continue reading →

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(#313) Information Literacy 2.0: WHO Is The WHO Of Your Information?

Posted on May 22, 2016 by Steve Piscitelli

We need to pay more attention to the sources of our information and  we now need to question whether the sources are real people. A note to my blog followers: This week’s post marks the sixth anniversary for this blog. Thank you … Continue reading →

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