Information Literacy Gifts

"I've edited your Wikipedia entry again, Sadie. You're about to be inundated with phone calls from the press." "Whatever, geek-boy." "You're now the world's foremost authority on Turkey leprosy, the disease that's threatening to ruin the holidays." "No one'll believe that." "Oh yeah? I wrote a Wikipedia page for Turkey leprosy, too, along with examples of all the historical figures it's killed, such as the Archduke of Crushistan." "There is no 'Crushistan.'" "I've written a Wikipedia entry for C

Hate Platforms

Lynching on social media

'My penmanship has really improved since I got a laser printer.'

'I'm reading aloud, Jeremy - My lips are SUPPOSED to be moving!'

"No, I really thought each sentence ended with an emoji!"

"I give up. Where's the power button?"

I.T. Fear

"The moral of the story, honey, is that being a celebrity does not make you a credible children’s book author."

"No, son, you’re not ‘M for Mature.’"

"Barb's such a fast reader."

"You can use the alphabet to text. You can use the alphabet to tweet. Why can't you use the alphabet to spell?"

'What does it say, Dad?'

"Because he's illiterate. That's why I have to read to him all the time."

Rumors, lies and innuendo.

"The Internet ate my baby!"

The Expert

"Ah, to be young and foolish again."

Library

"As you can see, I've learned the alphabet."

Child lifting alphabet blocks.

"The time has come to talk of many things; of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of double-entry bookkeeping, too."

"I hope you're not reading fake news."

"Well, Sara Kalen is wrong – Edward Snowden is not a 'tattletale.'"

Data Extraction Social Media Theme Park

"To 'click to enter' or not to 'click to enter'… that is the question."

"I know it's not in our nature, but we really gotta stop charging everything."

'Well, so my grades are A,B,C,D... at least I'm learning my alphabet.'

Good writing is good thinking

"But if I don't learn handwriting, how will I be able to read Grandma's letters?"

'There's more information available now than ever before. I can only block out so much of it.'

Spell-Check Bee

"You have been specially selected to upload your bank details. Offer ends midnight."

"Why is there an ad for Jay-Z in the New England Journal of Pediatric Medicine?!"

Censorship | Not Censorship