Media & Information Literacy - The Singapore Way
Singapore Webinar
Friday 30 October 2020
2pm to 5pm (SGT)
2:00 pm
SINGAPORE
3:00 pm
REPUBLIC of KOREA
7:00 am
FRANCE
About the Webinar
This Singapore webinar is part of the 8th annual Global Media & Information Literacy (MIL) Week hosted by the Republic of Korea, 24-31 October 2020.
The theme for Global MIL Week 2020 highlights how we can look to addressing disinformation and divides by recognizing our shared interest in improving everyone’s competencies to engage with the opportunities and risks in today’s landscape of communication, technology, and information. In this way, MIL – along with Global Citizenship Education - can aid progress towards the SDGs by equipping citizens with the knowledge, skills, values, and practices to be engaged as critical-thinking citizens in societies. These competencies can empower citizens for involvement in media development, access to information and knowledge for all, and freedom of expression, which all have implications on how the war against disinformation can be won.
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(as quoted from the UNESCO website / image by CHUTTERSNAP from Unsplash)
Singapore Program
The Council of Chief Librarians Information Literacy Interest Group (CCL IL-IG) together with the Library Association of Singapore (LAS) brings you this Global Media and Information Literacy Day - The Singapore Way.
Join us as we hear colleagues share their case studies on digital, media and information literacy during the time of the pandemic.
Opening Remarks
2:00 - 2:10 pm
Ms Bethany Wilkes, University Librarian - Singapore Management University (SMU) Libraries.
Official opening and introduction to PechaKucha - the Japanese word for chit chat - a presentation technique with 20 slides and 20 seconds of story telling per slide.
Introduction to Dr Alton Grizzle, Keynote speaker.
Keynote Address
2:10 - 2:30 pm
Dr Alton Grizzle, Program Specialist – Section for Media and Information Literacy and Media Development. Communication and Information Sector, UNESCO, Paris.
Mr Grizzle will provide insights about the theme this year, Resisting Disinfodemic: Media and Information Literacy for everyone and, by everyone. Additionally, he will share UNESCO’s advocacy for Media and Information Literacy.
Question & Answer Session
2:30- 2:50Â pm
Moderated by Ms Sadie-Jane Nunis, Head Librarian - Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) Library, and Vice-President - Library Association of Singapore (LAS).
IL (Love) in the time of COVID 19 – Yale NUS’s take on socially distanced IL training
2:50 - 3:00 pm
Priyanka Sharma, Yale-NUS College Library.
The challenge of being socially distanced is even greater in a campus where our very USP hinges on close proximity to each other – and the ‘personal touch’ in all that we do. However, the show (or the learning) must go on – and so the team of subject librarians at Yale-NUS College library came up with digital alternatives to two of the signature (compulsory) events in our IL calendar – orientation and the in-class session embedded into the common curriculum module Comparative Social Inquiry (CSI). I will briefly share the development and delivery of both these programmes, and what we learnt from the process.
Travel the World with SP Library
3:00 - 3:10 pm
Edmund Lee, Singapore Polytechnic (SP) Library.
The absence of face-to-face interaction posed a big challenge for Freshmen Orientation Program during COVID-19 period. Ride on SP Library’s journey to reach out and welcome students in different ways.
Moving IL outreach online in the face of Covid-19: National Library Board
3:10 - 3:20 pm
Sara Pek, National Library Board (NLB), Singapore.
NLB’s SURE (Source, Understand, Research, and Evaluate) program promotes information literacy to schools and the general public. During the Covid-19 crisis, the team moves all outreach programs online and facilitates the virtual meetings of the Digital and Information Literacy Community of Practice.
Should we use a PUSH STRATEGY or PULL STRATEGY? Information Literacy Skills Programs at SUTD
3:20 - 3:30Â pm
Vijaya Lakshimi D/O Selliah, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) Library.
As a young university library, setting up and getting the buy-in from stakeholders was critical. SUTD will share the journey of the training programmes/initiatives, challenges and outcomes to date.
Break / Question & Answer Session
3:30 - 3:40 pm
Moderated by Ms Sadie-Jane Nunis, Head Librarian - Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) Library, and Vice-President - Library Association of Singapore (LAS).
Slaying the Demons: Media Literacy
3:40 -Â 3:50 pm
Nur Diyana Binte Abdul Kader, National University of Singapore (NUS) Libraries.
In combating the evils of algorithms, cognitive bias, and fake news, we call upon demon slayers SIFT, ESCAPE and their other contemporaries. This presentation essentially puts forth key frameworks and tools relevant to media literacy.
Breaking New Ground during COVID-19 @ NP Library
3:50 - 4:00 pm
Sharon Tan, Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP) Library.
Amid the COVID-19 period, NP Library seized digital opportunities to enhance its virtual services to delight its patrons. This includes transforming some of its learning services, leveraging on new technologies and providing new digital offerings to support Working From Home (WFH) and Home-Based Learning (HBL).
Information & Media Literacy – eLearning at NTU Library
4:00 - 4:10 pm
Umarani Jayapal, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Library.
Information & Media Literacy is a fully interactive and animated online eLearning program for all freshmen in NTU. One of our bite-sized game based units covers the topic of Identifying Fake News where students are not only taught the identifying characteristics of and consequences of spreading Fake News but also get to experience real life scenarios to apply the knowledge learnt.
The Day the Libraries Closed
4:10 - 4:20 pm
Debby Wegener, Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) Library.
As COVID-19 swept the nation, it forced the nation’s biggest providers of information and learning into closure, limiting the education options of students everywhere. This unprecedented incident required libraries to improvise, adapt, and overcome to give students the learning and information they needed, and SIT will be sharing how they did this with inventive solutions to a catastrophe no one saw coming.
No Cold Feet in a COVID-19 World – Disruptions and Opportunities
4:20 - 4:30 pm
James Wong & Mae Lim, National Institute of Education (NIE) Library.
Join the instructional librarians from NIE as they share their journey to change how information literacy and research skills programs are delivered due to COVID-19 disruptions. Walk with them as they share their struggles, victories, and aspirations in this ongoing transformative journey to offer new library interventions to faculty and students.
WTF Online: How SMU Libraries Took a Bite Off the Pandemic
4:30 - 4:40 pm
Sumita Govindan & Rajen Munoo, Singapore Management University (SMU) Libraries.
Pandemic.Pandemonium.Possibilities! In this presentation participants will hear how SMU Libraries pivoted their Bite-Sized Workshops online. What the Fake (WTF) was one such example where the facilitator will share her trials and tribulations.
Question & Answer Session
4:40 - 4:50 pm
Moderated by Ms Sadie-Jane Nunis, Head Librarian - Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) Library, and Vice-President - Library Association of Singapore (LAS).
Closing Remarks
4:50 - 4:55 pm
Dr Jiow Hee Jhee, Program Director of the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) Digital Communications and Integrated Media Program, and Member on the IMDA Advisory Committees - Media Literacy Council (MLC).
Vote of Thanks
4:55 - 5:00 pm
Mr Rindra Ramli, Yale-NUS College, College Librarian & Chair, Library Association of Singapore (LAS) Training and Development Committee.
Conference Closing
5:00 pm
Ms Debra L'Angellier, Senior Librarian- Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) Library.
Thank you so much, Everyone!
Due to an overwhelming response, bookings are now closed.
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