Metaliterate Learning for the Post-Truth World

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).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. Author or co-author of several books, her website is trudijacobson.com.

• List of Figures and TablesForeword, by Troy A. SwansonPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Empowering Metaliterate Learners for the Post-Truth World —Thomas P. Mackey2 The Materiality of Metaliteracy: A Documentary Approach and Perspective for Information and Literacy Practices in the Post-Truth Era —Marc Kosciejew3 Inoculation Theory and the Metaliterate Learner —Josh Compton4 Constructing Scientific Literacy through Metaliteracy: Implications for Learning in a Post-Truth World —Allison B. Brungard and Kristin Klucevsek5 When Stories and Pictures Lie Together—and You Do Not Even Know It —Thomas Palmer6 Teaching and Learning with Metaliterate LIS Professionals —Nicole A. Cooke and Rachel M. Magee7 First, Help Students Learn to Be Wrong —Allison Hosier8 Fictional Affect and Metaliterate Learning through Genre —Jaclyn Partyka9 Poetic Ethnography and Metaliteracy: Empowering Voices in a Hybrid Theater Arts Course —Kimmika L. H. Williams-WitherspoonAbout the Editors and ContributorsIndex