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ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) software and tools are already changing the world. ChatGPT can pass an MBA exam from an Ivy League Institution (Terwiesch, 2023). It can also create disinformation on topics like “vaccines, COVID-19, the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, immigration and China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority” (Associated […]

Due to a rapid development of digital services and digital transformation in a wide range of disciplines, new challenges have emerged seeking out to acquire digital skills and gain digital competence (Vuorikari et. al., DigiCompEdu 2.2, 2022). Learning about information technology can be quite challenging for STEM-oriented students, and it’s even more challenging for non-STEM

Utilizing board games, information professionals teach critical thinking, visual literacy, and communication skills in a low-stakes environment, encouraging otherwise reluctant students to participate. Disabled individuals have the same needs and uses for information literacy, but most popular games are not designed with accessibility in mind. Lack of accessibility, rather than creating community and encouraging participations,

BackgroundCities are pioneers in opening data. Moreover, the phenomena of smart cities, open cities, and open government are strongly based on open data. Finnish open data includes information relating to households, energy use, transport, and infrastructure (Avoindata.fi, 2022). In addition, many research institutes provide open information and data that relate to our urban living environments.

Data stories are a way of presenting data and information in a narrative format that is easy for people to understand and engage with (Li, 2018). They can be used to promote information literacy by helping people to understand and critically evaluate data and its sources. They can also be used to help people become

The aftermath of the crisis generated by the Covid-19 pandemic, and the dangerous infodemic that has emerged in parallel, has made the importance of fostering information literacy even more evident. Information literacy is fundamental in all ages to enable us to participate in contemporary society, and is therefore specifically a key competence to be developed

This communication is the result of an ethnographic research about a digital device created by a French publishing house to make pupils and students write, read and print short stories: the “Cub’Edito”. I count this device as an action apparatus (Barrère, 2013), a tool made to support selected cultural practices. ObjectivesThe analysis of such an

Research Background and MethodologyThe study investigated how students’ personal characteristics and information and communication technology (ICT) skills relate to their level of information literacy (IL), with the aim of identifying the ICT/psychological concepts that are most closely related to IL and could help in planning future IL education in terms of focus, methods and timing.