October 30, 2025: Encourage Open Dialogue & Media Literacy

~ Beth Ghostraven

Transcript of the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable: October 30, 2025
Topic: Encourage Open Dialogue & Media Literacy
Photos by Beth Ghostraven

The presentation & discussion “Encourage Open Dialogue and Media Literacy”, led by Sheila Yoshikawa will be in voice and text. It celebrates UNESCO’s Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2025 (24-31 October)

[12:05] Sheila Yoshikawa: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable. VWER meets on Thursdays at 12 noon SLT for an hour, in the UK 8pm, 3pm EST.
[12:05] Sheila Yoshikawa: VWER is a forum to educate and inform the community about issues that are important and relevant to education in virtual worlds.
[12:05] Sheila Yoshikawa: We work in collaboration with the Virtual Worlds Education Consortium. This is a public meeting, so we will be keeping and publishing a transcript. The transcripts can be found at https://vwer.info/
[12:05] Sheila Yoshikawa: Hi Max and Stranger
[12:05] Sheila Yoshikawa: Please join the VWER group here in SL. If you are on Facebook please join our group there http://www.facebook.com/groups/159154226946/
Today’s topic is “Encourage Open Dialogue and Media Literacy”. It will be in voice and text chat
[12:05] Sheila Yoshikawa: Let’s start as we normally do and introduce ourselves. Just type into text chat as much or as little as you want.
[12:05] Valibrarian Gregg: Valerie Hill – Valibrarian – Library/Information Science educator/researcher, Seattle WA https://linktr.ee/Valibrarian Community Virtual Library, VWEC, supporting VWER, Nonprofit Commons & working at the Digital Citizenship Outpost.
[12:06] Max Chatnoir: I heard one of my favorite piano pieces on Tuesday at a faculty recital: Ravel -Hi, all!
[12:06] Stranger Nightfire: looks like the usual suspects
[12:06] Sheila Yoshikawa: I am a faculty member in the School of Information Journalism and Communication, University of Sheffield and leader of VWER
[12:06] Sheila Yoshikawa: lol yes Stranger
[12:07] Sheila Yoshikawa: OK, I am going to use voice, but I have written my text in the notecard in the box and also I will copy paste it to chat
[12:07] Beth Ghostraven: I’m a retired teacher-librarian in RL and owner of Ghostraven Professional Attire and GPA Dinkies, classic clothing for educators in SL (http://bethghostraven.com). I’ve been an unofficial liaison between education groups in SL (AKA Spam Queen) since around 2012. I’ll be taking photos to publish with the transcript; if you have any objection, please IM me.
[12:08] Beth Ghostraven: I”m fiddling with my headset, hopefully I can hear when you start talking
[12:08] Max Chatnoir: Recently retired from teaching, some of it on Genome Island in Second Life.
[12:08] Sheila Yoshikawa: So as usual if you click the VWER box beside the round table & chairs you get a folder with a notecard in
[12:09] Sheila Yoshikawa: I will just do the introduction in text
[12:09] Sheila Yoshikawa: This is part of the 10 ideas for Humanity series – number 9
[12:09] Sheila Yoshikawa: Today’s session focuses on one of the ten responses to the question posed to AI by Christopher Chase, Creative Systems Thinking (11/17/24)
“If you were to share 10 ideas with humanity for how we can become wiser as a species, reach our full potential and come together over the next few decades to solve the many problems we are now experiencing, what would you suggest?”
[12:09] Sheila Yoshikawa: Today’s focus is:
” Encourage Open Dialogue and Media Literacy — Create Platforms for Dialogue: Build spaces—physical and digital—where people can engage in constructive discussions about complex issues.
Teach Media Literacy: Equip people to critically analyze information, reducing susceptibility to misinformation and polarization.”
[12:10] Valibrarian Gregg: sound good
[12:10] Max Chatnoir: y
[12:10] Beth Ghostraven: I can hear you
[12:10] Sheila Yoshikawa: **Slide 1: Title
I’m going to talk about
UNESCO’s Media and Information Literacy initiatives and Global Media and Information Literacy week, which ends tomorrow
That will be a presentation part
Then I will address the two aspects: Creating Platforms for Dialogue on complex issues; Teach media and information literacy – I think the GenAI was just ignorant in mentioning only media literacy, not media and information literacy 😉
[12:11] Sheila Yoshikawa: **Slide 2: Outline of the presentation
UNESCO’s Media and Information Literacy initiatives & Global MIL week

  • Background and the MIL Concept
  • Publications/ Events
  • Creating Platforms for Dialogue
  • Teach media and information literacy
    [12:12] Sheila Yoshikawa: **Slide 3: UNESCO MIL: Prelude: problems
    I’m not going to discuss this further, but I thought I should flag up
  • The United Nations (UN) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) are not joined up organisations
  • There is a UNESCO Media and Information Literacy initiative that has been going for years and years (what I will talk about)
  • Other initiatives to do with disinformation, health literacy etc. etc. are started up in other parts of the UN with no cross referencing
    [12:13] Sheila Yoshikawa: – UNESCO moves round its staff and also reorganises its website regularly
    This means that it is difficult to keep track of useful documents and resources, sometimes they disappear altogether if no one else has archived them, and you are lucky if a key person stays around for more than a couple of years.
    They had a new head arrive a year ago and it seems like they are now being a bit more organised, they have narrowed the agenda of MIL even further and are overlooking the library/ information side almost completely. This is frustrating as there had been some progress with the previous team. I think this is a problem you face with any governmental or pan national organisation, you make relationships, and then have to start all over again.
    [12:14] Beth Ghostraven: wow, that is ridiculous!
    [12:14] Sheila Yoshikawa: On the other hand, UNESCO’s initiatives are important as they provide evidence for MIL being a real thing, and provide international guidelines, curriculum and so on.
    [12:15] Sheila Yoshikawa: **Slide 4: Background 1
  • UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) initially had separate initiatives for Media Literacy & Information Literacy
  • Media Education / Media Literacy started in 1982 with the Grunwald Declaration on Media Education
  • Information Literacy: included Prague meeting & Declaration (2003), Alexandria Proclamation (2005)
    with important statements such as
    [12:15] Sheila Yoshikawa: Information Literacy lies at the core of lifelong learning. It empowers people in all walks of life to seek, evaluate, use and create information effectively to achieve their personal, social, occupational and educational goals. It is a basic human right in a digital world and promotes social inclusion of all nations.”
    Then they combined their media literacy and information literacy initiatives, probably because it was more convenient and cheap for them.
    [12:16] Beth Ghostraven: Hi Shiloh!
    [12:17] Sheila Yoshikawa: **Slide 5: MIL a “Composite concept”
    This is how they explained it (Grizzle et al., 2013:53-54)
    “Media Literacy plus Information Literacy equals Media and Information Literacy. This forward-looking approach harmonizes the field and stresses the need for a multi-perspective theoretical approach. It is harmonizing because it encapsulates the many notions of related literacies. These include: library literacy, news literacy, digital literacy, computer literacy, Internet literacy, freedom of expression and freedom of information literacy, television literacy, advertising literacy, cinema literacy, and games literacy … It is also worth noting that social literacies such as scientific, global, political, family, financial and cultural literacies are widely discussed. Media and information literacy underpins all of them.”
    [12:17] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): Hi Beth… hi everyone.. *quietly sits down
    [12:18] Sheila Yoshikawa: So you can see why this statement is relevant for today’s “10 ideas for Humanity” theme
    [12:18] Sheila Yoshikawa: **Slide 7: Background 2
  • Activities include:
  • Publications & frameworks: e.g. MIL Curriculum (this is also available online as a series of modules, it is very detailed); MIL Assessment Framework; Framework for MIL cities
  • Events: e.g. annual “Global MIL week”; webinars
  • Media and Information Literacy Alliance: this is being restructured to have regional and sectoral chapters
  • Initiatives & networks: Training and development, notably in Global South, working in particular with local media literacy organisations
  • Campaigns: e.g. the one they launched this week – AI Can Make Mistakes.
  • Includes strong focus on combatting misinformation and hate speech
  • Youth, teachers & journalists particular focus for education/campaigns
    I will talk a little more about th campaign shortly
    [12:21] Sheila Yoshikawa: ** Slide 8 Global Media and Information Literacy Week
    This is what I am celebrating today
    24-31 October each year
  • Normally there is a feature conference. This year’s was in Colombia and also livestreamed. You could watch online – follow the livestream links on this page and they lead to the recordings on Youtube https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/global-media-and-information-literacy-week-2025-feature-conference?hub=66833
    There high-level speakers (politicians etc.) as well as experts.
    [12:21] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): good. Sheila… I am on a campaign to improve AI responses and improve AI production for classrooms. Thank you for this link.
    [12:22] Sheila Yoshikawa: – Usually also launch a campaign and/or declaration. This year they
    (1) launched a new stage in their Media and Information Literate Cities initiatives. This has a Framework for MIL cities, and already reports on projects etc. and at the online launch event they had presentations from the pilot MIL cities in Dubrovnik (Croatia), Athens (Greece), Al Rayyan (Qatar), Ramallah (Palestine), Jambi City (Indonesia), Quezon City or Malabon (Philippines), Comodoro (Argentina), Santos (Brazil), Santa Rosa de Copán (Honduras), Antonio Cardoso, Municipality of São Gonçalo do Amarante (Brazil), Abuja (Nigeria)
    (2) Published an 18 page brochure about the “state of MIL” globally https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000396030
    (3) On 31 October they launch The AI and Digital Transformation in Government Course, created by @‌Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and @‌UNESCO. https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/equipping-civil-servants-ai-era
    (4) The AI Can Make Mistakes – I’ll mention that in the next slide
    [12:24] Sheila Yoshikawa: – Anyone can register Global MIL Week events, online or inperson ones.
    This is the main website https://www.unesco.org/en/weeks/media-information-literacy
    [12:24] Sheila Yoshikawa: ** Slide 9: New Campaign AI Can Make Mistakes
  • This was launched on 24th October
    [12:24] Sheila Yoshikawa: – There is a one minute video with snippets of the separate videos they made (in English, Arabic, French, Spanish)
    https://youtu.be/oXW-cR9ZiIk?si=c3vxrUxnbLRNh3RI
    Please just view that
    [12:25] Sheila Yoshikawa: are you able to view it OK?
    [12:25] Sheila Yoshikawa: – they have a range of freely usable assets – Mainly stickers as images or pdfs, in several languages, can be downloaded from a Trello board
    https://trello.com/b/9y2MFjYo/mil-week-2025-ai-can-make-mistakes
    [12:26] Valibrarian Gregg: done
    [12:26] Sheila Yoshikawa: actually also you can down 4 videos, the ones you get snippets from download
    [12:26] Sheila Yoshikawa: they are all in a different language, with Spanish, French or English subtitles as needed
    [12:27] Sheila Yoshikawa: and I have put some of the images for the campaign on the board
    [12:27] Sheila Yoshikawa: OK!
    [12:28] Sheila Yoshikawa: As I said I started with this as it Global MIL week, but also because so much of what UNESCO does in this area is relevant to this week’s theme
    [12:28] Sheila Yoshikawa: Now for the information dump of links!
    [12:28] Sheila Yoshikawa: ** Slide 10 Further links, including to some things I mentioned
  • Grizzle, A. et al. (2013). Media and Information Literacy: policy and strategy guidelines. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000225606
  • Grizzle, A. et al. (2021). Media and information literate citizens: think critically, click wisely! Media & information literacy curriculum for educators and learners. ISBN 978-92-3-100448-3. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000377068.locale=en
  • Harlow, S. (2024). Content Creators and Journalists: Redefining News and Credibility in the Digital Age. Knight Center & UNESCO https://journalismcourses.org/ebook/content-creators-and-journalists-redefining-news-and-credibility-in-the-digital-age/
  • Owens-Ibie, N. (Ed) (2019). Media and information literacy: non-formal education guide for all platforms. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000372417
  • UNESCO. (2022a). Addressing conspiracy theories: what teachers need to know. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000381958
  • UNESCO. (2005).
    [12:28] Sheila Yoshikawa: Beacons of the Information Society: The Alexandria Proclamation on Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning. https://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/3147
  • UNESCO. (2022b). Global Standards for Media and Information Literacy Curricula Development Guidelines. https://www.unesco.org/sites/default/files/medias/files/2022/02/Global Standards for Media and Information Literacy Curricula Development Guidelines_EN.pdf
  • UNESCO. (2025). Media and information literacy for all: closing the gaps: global analysis of the current state of play of media and information literacy https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000396030
  • UNESCO Communication and Information Sector. (2013). Global Media and Information Literacy Assessment Framework: country readiness and competencies. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000224655
  • UNESCO Section for Global Citizenship and Peace Education. (2022). Addressing conspiracy theories: what teachers need to know.
    [12:28] Sheila Yoshikawa: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000381958
  • Yanaze, M. & Chibás, F. (2020). From smart cities to MIL cities. https://www.academia.edu/43369259/FROM_SMART_CITIES_TO_MIL_CITIES_Metrics_inspired_by_the_vision_of_UNESCO
    [12:29] Sheila Yoshikawa: ” Encourage Open Dialogue and Media Literacy — Create Platforms for Dialogue: Build spaces—physical and digital—where people can engage in constructive discussions about complex issues.
    Teach Media Literacy: Equip people to critically analyze information, reducing susceptibility to misinformation and polarization.”
    [12:29] Sheila Yoshikawa: So, on to the exact statements the “10 ideas for humanity” came up with. The first part was about the following
    The AI said
    “Encourage Open Dialogue and Media Literacy — Create Platforms for Dialogue: Build spaces—physical and digital—where people can engage in constructive discussions about complex issues”
    I want to introduce this by using a slide that my long time friend and information literacy collaborator, Bill Johnston, created for a panel session we both participated in last month.
    [12:30] Sheila Yoshikawa: ** Slide 12: Informed Citizenry? Challenging the Dystopia, Changing the Landscape
    These are principles and activities he strongly believes in. In his previous slide he had been talking about how we live in an age of polycrisis.
    He highlighted
  • Civic reasoning
  • Deliberative Democracy
  • Independent Think Tanks
  • Citizens Assemblies
    as ways in which citizens could become informed and informed citizens could be an active part of the democratic process
    [12:30] Sheila Yoshikawa: This combines education, research, professional practice, social development, and civic action
    [12:31] Sheila Yoshikawa: Just to define Deliberative Democracy – “Deliberative democracy is grounded in an ideal in which people come together, on the basis of equal status and mutual respect, to discuss the political issues they face and, on the basis of those discussions, decide on the policies that will then affect their lives.” Bächtiger, A. et al. (2018). Deliberative Democracy: An Introduction. In The Oxford handbook of deliberative democracy. (pp1-32). Oxford Academic. https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/28086/chapter/212128668 (this is an open access chapter)
    [12:32] Sheila Yoshikawa: ** Slide 13: Examples of Citizens Assemblies
    Firstly, the Citizens Assembly debating the issue of abortion in Ireland – which was an important part of finally changing the abortion law.
    Quoting from – Palese, M. (2018, 29 May) The Irish abortion referendum: How a Citizens’ Assembly helped to break years of political deadlock. https://electoral-reform.org.uk/the-irish-abortion-referendum-how-a-citizens-assembly-helped-to-break-years-of-political-deadlock/
    “The Assembly was composed of a chairperson, appointed by the government, and 99 ordinary citizens ‘randomly selected so as to be broadly representative of Irish society’ in terms of age, gender, social class, and regional spread.
    “The assembly deliberated on the Eighth Amendment over the course of five sessions from November 2016 until April 2017. Members were given information on the topic, heard from 25 experts and reviewed 300 submissions (out of around 12,000 received) from members of the public and interest groups.” and at the end 87%
    [12:32] Sheila Yoshikawa: thought that then current legislation was not fit for purpose.
    [12:33] Sheila Yoshikawa: Secondly the Knowledge Network on Climate Assemblies (KNOCA) https://knoca.eu/ This is ” is a European-based network that aims to improve the commissioning, design, implementation, impact and evaluation of climate assemblies, using evidence, knowledge exchange and dialogue. KNOCA documents climate assembly practice, identifies and disseminates best practice for impact and shapes future trends.”
    [12:34] Second Life: Items successfully shared.
    [12:34] Sheila Yoshikawa: 1. Have any of you been involved in a Citizens Assembly or other deliberate democracy process?
    [12:35] Beth Ghostraven: I haven’t, that I can think of
    [12:35] Marly (marly.milena): We do this regularly at our Unitarian church
    [12:35] Beth Ghostraven: Hi Marly!
    [12:35] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): okay.. thank you
    [12:36] DavidArguna: eek
    [12:36] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): well… I have been having discussions with AI about complex issues and how to improve the interaction with AI.
    [12:37] Sheila Yoshikawa: Marly says that when contentious things are going on they have open and respectful conversations, with listening, fact checking, actions they can take
    [12:37] Sheila Yoshikawa: they have a whole group based on working out what democracy is about
    [12:37] Sheila Yoshikawa: whether there are boundaries
    [12:37] Sheila Yoshikawa: done from a place of respect and love and deep listening
    [12:38] Max Chatnoir: I’ve been going to a weekly discussion at a local bookstore called “Meaningful Conversation”. It’s organized by the Baha’is, who I think of as Muslum Unitarians, because they are quite liberal.
    [12:38] Beth Ghostraven: that’s awesome, Marly!
    [12:38] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): that is good to hear, Marly.
    [12:38] Sheila Yoshikawa: @Shiloh I think usually the focus is on humans talking to humans, but interesting to see how/whether they ai converstaions might come in
    [12:38] Sheila Yoshikawa: Yes I agree that is awesome @Marly
    [12:39] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): very nice, Max
    [12:39] Sheila Yoshikawa: 2. What are the physical spaces where you feel “people can engage in constructive discussions about complex issues”
    [12:39] Marly (marly.milena): Heh heh, if anyone is looking for a spiritual and truth seeking community not based on dogma but on a model of deep democracy, do investigate the UU churches in your area
    [12:40] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): i like the idea of small bookstores…
    [12:40] Sheila Yoshikawa: perhaps it’s places where people feel safe already
    [12:40] Sheila Yoshikawa: and have a sense of trust in others visiting teh same place
    [12:41] Sheila Yoshikawa: as I said, libraries can host these types of converstaion too
    [12:41] Max Chatnoir: We also have discussion guidelines.
    [12:41] Sheila Yoshikawa: that’s useful @Max
    [12:41] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): oh, nice, Max..
    [12:41] Sheila Yoshikawa: are they restated at each meeting @Max?
    [12:41] Beth Ghostraven: I would hope that schools and universities could provide spaces like this, too
    [12:41] Max Chatnoir: It’s a wonderful group, very diverse.
    [12:42] Beth Ghostraven: with leadership, that’s probably crucial no matter where the space
    [12:42] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): public schools are regulated though
    [12:42] Max Chatnoir: Yes, the discussion guidelines are repeated each session.
    [12:42] Valibrarian Gregg: Critical thinking and prioritizing accuracy and authority are top in libraries. My session at NPC tomorrow is on this topic! (The Leprechaun and the Librarian— the leprechaun being a metaphor for talking to AI- giving you what you wish for.)
    [12:42] Sheila Yoshikawa: actually @Beth in a session with our distance librarianship students yesterday some talked about the school library being a safe space – a teacher-free space 😉
    [12:42] Marly (marly.milena): I wish we could do more of that here, ie experiential processes based on the topic of the day
    [12:42] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): university area once was more free, maybe not.
    [12:43] Sheila Yoshikawa: I feel that universities are more fraught spaces now
    [12:43] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): the virtual spaces… Dodge’s chat session… or here at VWER …
    [12:43] Beth Ghostraven: Val, interesting that “safe = teacher-free”
    [12:43] Sheila Yoshikawa: 3. What are the virtual spaces where you feel “people can engage in constructive discussions about complex issues”
    [12:43] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): i think they always were, though, Sheila…
    [12:43] Valibrarian Gregg: Society seems to have moved from respect for accurate information to respect for shared opinions and giving everyone a voice. Teaching citizenship must include respectful debate and respect for the authority of experts. (Not so much emphasis on how special we each are!)
    [12:43] Marly (marly.milena): We could do more of it here
    [12:43] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): we do a lot of discussion at Dodge’s weekly meeting
    [12:43] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): and here.. because weekly helps
    [12:44] Max Chatnoir: Lifelong learning has some aspects of that. Also the Over 50 Women.
    [12:44] Marly (marly.milena): Having a discussion about a topic is different from actually expressing feelings and opinions about it and doing active respectful listening
    [12:44] Sheila Yoshikawa: yes I think that a number of these regular meeting here feel like places for constructive discussion
    [12:45] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): yes, regular meetings are more constructive, I think.
    [12:46] Sheila Yoshikawa: @Shiloh there are more sensitivities now. We have to fill in a risk assessment form for any speaker (on campus or online) we invite in
    [12:46] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): ahhh
    [12:46] Sheila Yoshikawa: supposedly to identify whether we need any security people involved to protect
    [12:46] Sheila Yoshikawa: but it seems inhibiting
    [12:46] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): I wonder what life was like during the 60s though.. when there were a lot more protests..
    [12:46] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): a lot of student protests.
    [12:47] Sheila Yoshikawa: interesting observation @Marly re the difference between “discussion about a topic” and “actually expressing feelings and opinions about it and doing active respectful listening”
    [12:47] Max Chatnoir: There have been quite a few protests recently….
    [12:48] Beth Ghostraven: I think lawyers are a lot more involved with everything than they were in the 1960s, so corporate entities are always looking to protect themselves from litigation proactively
    [12:48] Sheila Yoshikawa: though I think I do some of those 3 things here, but I suppose not in a focused way to surface difference and debate that and take action
    [12:48] Beth Ghostraven: our admin was always talking about how their “hands were tied”
    [12:49] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): Val has taught media literacy.
    [12:49] Marly (marly.milena): Would it be too triggering for folks here to take on a hot topic (like abortion, for instance) and, rather than presenting all the usual arguments for and against, speak from a personal space and what was involved in formulating your opinion
    [12:50] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): we do not really have a debate club here in SL
    [12:50] Beth Ghostraven: Marly, for me, yes, too triggering (and I’m not willing to share things like that in SL)
    [12:50] Marly (marly.milena): I just used that because Sheila referred to the Irish abortion law
    [12:50] Valibrarian Gregg: yes @Shiloh- media literacy and the many many names for specific literacy… my current focus is metaliteracy because most of our information is now in digital format and shared online. Just brought a group of students in SL to a class on metaliteracy yesterday! went very well
    [12:51] Valibrarian Gregg whispers: The Engagement Clinic- hosted by Stephen Xootfly… focuses on logic and debate in a “world gone mad” recently here in SL
    [12:51] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): well… wait look at the huge flurry of criticism that occurred when Trump lit candles at the white house for a Diwali celebration
    [12:51] Marly (marly.milena): I am very interested in how people create their model of the world and that has to include one’s personal experiences. Education has plenty of material for us!
    [12:51] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): and yet.. it was more an act of Diplomacy.
    [12:51] Sheila Yoshikawa: The second theme from the AI was:
    “Encourage Open Dialogue and Media Literacy –
    Teach Media [and information literacy] Literacy: Equip people to critically analyze information, reducing susceptibility to misinformation and polarization.“
    We have talked about this topic, and the problems caused, quite a bit already in VWER, and obviously this comes up in Val’s Digital Citizenship tours, so I have just posed some questions about this. I will just mention again that this is a big preoccupation of UNESCO and also other international bodies such as the World Health Organization, as well as national government governments.
    [12:51] Beth Ghostraven: I replicated Val’s work in Minecraft on information literacy with some of my students
    [12:52] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): oh, how did that turn out, Beth?
    [12:52] Sheila Yoshikawa: Questions
  1. Have you supported or taught this in virtual worlds? If so how?
  2. Have you supported or taught this in other virtual or physical spaces? If so, how?
    [12:52] Valibrarian Gregg: yes @Beth- and my article on Minecraft and digital citizenship has been sited well over 100 times
    [12:52] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): oh, can you share it , Val?
    [12:52] Marly (marly.milena): cited?
    [12:53] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): she meant “cited”
    [12:53] Beth Ghostraven: Shiloh, I think it was a real eye-opener for the students – here’s a blog post about it https://booklady9.edublogs.org/2015/11/02/minecraft-and-media-literacy/
    [12:53] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): thank you, Beth.
    [12:53] Marly (marly.milena): Also sited, seen, haha
    [12:53] Sheila Yoshikawa: thanks @Beth
    [12:54] Beth Ghostraven: wow, that was 10 years ago! yikes!
    [12:54] Sheila Yoshikawa: Also Val I peeked in on the students yesterday in that I was here and saw people on your island and was curious who they were
    [12:54] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): I think.. the idea that a Digital Native would know and understand everything about digital literacy has passed, though.
    [12:54] Sheila Yoshikawa: I hope that wasn’t creepy @Val
    [12:54] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): A lot of digital natives lack the critical evaluation skills.
    [12:54] Valibrarian Gregg: not creepy- come anytime!
    [12:55] Sheila Yoshikawa: @Shiloh to some extent, but you do still hear a lot of ageist assumptions – that young people are digitally capable and don’t need help etc etc
    [12:55] Valibrarian Gregg: I took them into “the Cloud” above my region and then had them fall through the cloud down to the “dark side of digital culture” to talk about the perils ahead !!
    [12:55] Valibrarian Gregg: I am trying to make my digital citizenship lessons more immersive!
    [12:56] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): yes, Sheila.. and they are mistaken.
    [12:56] Sheila Yoshikawa: Obviously this is a topic that we engage with our student librarians about in their information literacy class, as some of them will go on to teach other people about issues of misinformation etc
    [12:57] Sheila Yoshikawa: it is particularly interesting with our distance learners as they have more varied life experiences and e.g. talk about their children’s experiences and the conflicts e.g. a child being told not to use AI but all the digital tools (e.g. Word, pdfs) are urging the child to use AI and teachers are using AI!
    [12:57] Sheila Yoshikawa: so that makes the information landscapeeven more confusing
    [12:58] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): very good point.
    [12:58] Valibrarian Gregg: yes! all ages are encouraged to explore AI yet they have no indea how to teach it 😦
    [12:58] Marly (marly.milena): John Dewey said that education is a process of living and not a preparation for future living’. In this view educators look to learning and being with others rather than acting upon them. Their task is to educe (related to the Greek notion of educere), to bring out or develop potential both in themselves and others. This is the value I espouse
    [12:58] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): nice quote.
    [12:58] Valibrarian Gregg: I am talking with my Minecraft Club about AI- they can create NPCs in Minecraft and AI is coming there too!
    [12:59] Beth Ghostraven: (2 minutes left)
    [12:59] Max Chatnoir: I have to poof. Philosophy class coming up (also a good discussion venue)
    [12:59] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): ah, yes.
    [12:59] Beth Ghostraven: tc Max!
    [12:59] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): herman’s class.
    [12:59] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): stay well, Max
    [12:59] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): thank you for today’s discussion, Sheila
    [13:00] Valibrarian Gregg: great topic Sheila- ty!
    [13:00] Shiloh e. (shiloh.emmons): well done !!
    [13:00] Valibrarian Gregg: a really BIG important topic!
    [13:00] Sheila Yoshikawa: interesting @Marly , with a vocational course the students are thinking about what will be useful in future careers and obviously we support those practical aspects, but want to use their time at university as a chance to reflect and connect their experience too
    [13:00] Beth Ghostraven: Sheila, also thank you for the plethora of resources that you provided!
    [13:01] Valibrarian Gregg: good to see everyone 🙂 see you soon
    [13:01] Beth Ghostraven: it’s on the sign
    [13:01] Continuum Pinion: Thank you everyone…very interesting info.
    [13:02] Valibrarian Gregg: great! see you next week– bye for now

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