Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

Every year as the new school year begins I'm asked for recommendations for helping students improve their ability to discern good information from bad when conducting online research. One of the first recommendations that I always make is help them understand logical fallacies. To that end, I frequently recommend Your Logical Fallacy Is. It is a website that provides short explanations and examples of twenty-four common logical fallacies. Visitors to the site can click through the gallery to read the examples. Your Logical Fallacy Is also provides free PDF poster files that you can download and print.

E-learning modules are created and deployed in order to fill a learning gap or bring some skills forward and drive a certain desired behavior. Sometimes employees are enrolled by their superiors, other times they log on to the platform and access what they need at a given time. Either way, a successful learning experience should result in some sort of change.

Needless to say, quite often this does not happen, to the frustration of managers and L&D specialists who have invested in those interventions, and as a result expect them to have a positive outcome. It’s important to follow some steps before launching a course in order to make sure it has the best chances of succeeding in altering behaviors.