Information literacy
Alternative labels
ICT literacy
Civic online reasoning
Information education
Report
How students engage with news
This research report presents findings about how a sample of U.S. college students gather information and engage with news in the digital age.
Report
Measuring Australia's digital divide: the Australian digital inclusion index 2018
Digital inclusion is based on the premise that everyone should be able to make full use of digital technologies – to manage their health and wellbeing, access education and services, organise their finances, and connect with friends, family, and the world beyond.
Essay
How libraries provide safe spaces for (all) youth
This paper explores how libraries are working to provide safe spaces for youth. In doing so, they offer useful lessons on how to overcome the challenges associated with working with a diverse group with particular needs.
Report
Falling through the net: the digital divide in Western Australia
New data technologies, big data analytics and intelligent software systems are transforming the way we produce, consume or distribute commodities, and increasingly, the way we access services. This report shows there are clear divides between the haves and have nots, across various measures of access, ability and affordability.
Conference paper
Faking It With Data - A Curriculum Perspective
‘Fake news’ is now embedded as an everyday term in the media. This has significant consequences for educational curricula. In this paper, we explore the broader context of the misrepresentation of data and the critical thinking and discernment skills necessary to detect it. Increasing ubiquity of data sources and the growing prominence of big data...