The Library Leader : Media Literacy, Fake News and A Librarian's Information Diet

Have you ever thought about learning and how it is hard keeping up with rapid change in technology? If so, then you must be in the world of a media specialist and information technology manger. As we move within such a media technology driven world, it is a must that we keep up with the changing world around us within technology. Learners who are taking in information from various sources need to give credit to the original ideas.
When given information, we have to not only process information but we have to decide how to process it. What that means is that information is given to use. When deciding on how to use that information, you must question what you want the reader to pull from the information shared. Learners take that information and create an opinion on the information provided.
With the continuous opinions of "fake news", it is been found that many legitimate news coverage networks have been deemed as unpredictable news with a underlining targeted agenda. With this happening more and more, it is hard for many to decipher what to look at as real news. More and more there is some kind of reasoning behind what people report instead of it being credible information.
As librarians of today, we need to have an "information diet" that creates useful information for our media related technology. We have to know how to filter, search and plan out the information we are going to provide. We have to move with the "times" and help others with technology of today. We have to use information that we research and learn continually as lifelong learners. I try to stay away from politics until it is time to do my own research especially in local races. I find that when given information, I need to create a list of the positives and negatives.

This a great video on Fact vs. Fiction and Kids today