Nobody Seems to Like Them Yet Everyone Has Reasons to Take Them.

What we need today is metaliteracy – an ability to make sense of the vast amounts of information in the connected world of social media... educators and policymakers must “demonstrate the link between digital literacy and citizenship.” ... Metaliterate individuals ... learn to carefully differentiate among multiple sites... question the validity of information from any of these sources and do not privilege one over the other... learn to observe their feelings when reading a news item... Thinking about our own thinking reminds us that we need to move beyond how we feel, and engage our cognitive faculties in doing a critical assessment. Metaliterates pause to think whether they believe something because it affirms their ideas. via: Diigo, IFTTT

From the article: "Digital literacy supports the effective use of digital technologies, while metaliteracy emphasizes how we think about things. Metaliterate individuals learn to reflect on how they process information based on their feelings or beliefs."

Richard Fogarty, UAlbany