Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

“Information warfare” may be a top concern in the next Canadian election cycle, as a report on a workshop by CSIS suggests, but some fears about how people get their political information and the impact of social media are overstated.
In a recently published study, we show that fears about an “echo chamber” in which people encounter only information that confirms their existing political views are blown out of proportion. In fact, most people already have media habits that help them avoid echo chambers.

Ironically, for all of our instantaneous global communication technologies, it appears that best practices in teaching are actually staying the same faster than ever. Best practices are traveling like the leaflets drifting down on Onoda, with many educators seemingly not believing what is written.