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In this newest book in their series, the authors carefully examine the central role of learners as producers of information, a foundational idea for the metaliteracy framework and one that's more important than ever in our current media and information environment. They emphasize the active role today's learners play as individual and collaborative metaliterate producers of information in various forms, including writing, digital stories, digital artifacts, and multimedia productions. The authors explore a range of connected social settings from online courses to social media to open learning environments. Featuring a new metaliteracy diagram that defines the core components of metaliteracy as well as several illustrative case studies, this book offers an overview of the development of the metaliterate producer through metaliteracy's goals, learning objectives, learning domains, active learner roles, and associated characteristics; examines the ethical responsibilities of creating information and building connected communities of trust; explores the ways in which metaliteracy provides scaffolding for open pedagogical settings, encouraging students to understand and embrace their active roles; analyzes the conjunctions of metaliteracy and open pedagogy in courses with disparate permutations pertinent to the courses' learning objectives; shows how to embed metaliteracy learning activities in blended and online learning environments, illustrated through descriptive examples from several courses; and provides customizable learning activities designed to advance dispositions important to metaliterate producers, such as an open mindset, critical thinking, and embracing digital citizenship.

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Recent events have led to an acceleration regarding changes to education delivery and how students interact with information, making the text particularly relevant and applicable ... [It] is a valuable contribution to the literature and conversation surrounding IL and metaliteracy. It offers a useful jumping off point for both teachers and librarians in exploring the application of metaliteracy in the classroom. -- Journal of Information Literacy

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Trudi E. Jacobson, Distinguished Librarian, is Head of the Information Literacy Department at the University Libraries, University at Albany. Her professional interests focus on team-based and other forms of active learning, learner motivation, digital badging, and, of course, metaliteracy, a concept Tom Mackey and she developed in response to inadequate conceptions of information literacy in a rapidly changing information environment. Thomas P. Mackey is Professor in the Department of Arts and Media at SUNY Empire State College. His professional interests emphasize metaliterate learning and the design of innovative social spaces to promote critical engagement with emerging technologies. His collaborative work with Trudi Jacobson to originate the metaliteracy framework promotes the reflective learner as producer and participant in dynamic information environments. They both lead the Metaliteracy Learning Collaborative on the development of metaliteracy-related research, writing, teaching, grant projects, and the design of innovative learning spaces using competency-based digital badging and massive open online courses (MOOCs).

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