It’s also an excerpt from https://www.academia.org/craap-from-librarians/
It’s about identifying the source of the news. If they’re not a liberal socialist, plug your ears and shout “la la la la I can’t hear you la la la”.
“Don’t look now, but your local school library soon could be getting into the liberal indoctrination racket. “
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I don’t see how this could be considered liberal indoctrination?
Showing kids how to separate the wheat from the chaff on the internet is a good thing.
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None of that will stop or identify ‘Fake News’.
‘Credentials’ mean nothing....................
>>They say they do this by helping them understand the CRAAP that comes their way. CRAAP, which stands for Currency (timeliness), Relevance (importance), Authority (source), Accuracy (reliability) and Purpose (reason), “helps students sort through the overwhelming flood of digital information,” according to a recent story in USA TODAY.
When I entered college, this was the first thing I learned that applied to life in general. They didn’t use the acronym, but the 5 points of picking a source were all there.
The problem today is with Accuracy and Purpose. The Progressive “educator” will decide that anything with the purpose of creating a sense of freedom, individuality, or national identity is a “fake” purpose. Same for Accuracy.
CRAAP is a good idea. The problem is with a generation who believes that anything they disagree with is “hate”.
Yep, they are corporations dream
They are really behind the times. More kids are searching their I-phones for info than going into libraries and asking librarians for advice.
Okay, they could have at least changed the word order. Two strikes against it right out of the shoot.
Will have the kids AND the adults snickering.
The only librarian I now is a hard core Lefty. I figured this had been going on already, for years.
Where I live, this profession is on its death bed. Our city opened two new libraries, which I found strange considering it was exhausting its library budget. It did it through automation. More libraries and less librarians. You can pretty much place holds, and pick up books with no interaction with a person anymore.
“Authority” is a huge problem. So many “authorities” are incompetent pretenders (climate ‘scientists’, economists, etc etc). As an example - Dr Benjamin Spock was the AUTHORITY on child rearing. Yet he never reared a child and his methods were disastrous. Dr Kinsey was a charlatan who molested children yet his work is still considered authoritative.