A lot of people are talking about #infoliteracy today. @dhudgins and I have come to believe that this work is inextricably linked with Social Emotional Learning #SEL. Indeed, this connection underpins everything in our new book Developing Digital Detectives (ISTE 2021). Until....
that book (and all its lesson plans) is available, here are a few resources to help learners (of all ages) think deeply about how emotions affect their urge to trust/share information. http://bit.ly/digidetectives 
#factVSfiction #digcit #newsliteracy #digitaldetectives


Before we can think like fact checkers, we must 1st manage the emotions info is designed to trigger. The 1st step in all info literacy MUST be to look for embedded triggers. Then, we can ask critical questions about who benefits of we allow those emotions to drive our behavior.