id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt projectinfolit-org-9818 Truth is in the Network – Project Information Literacy .html text/html 4580 257 70 Currently, Mike is the director of Blended and Networked Learning at Washington State University Vancouver, and directs the Digital Polarization Initiative (Digipo), a cross-institutional initiative to improve civic discourse by developing web literacy skills in college undergraduates as part of the American Democracy Project. We caught up with Mike in May 2019 to ask about his approach to learning web literacy, why it matters, and why we should help students use his heuristic for making good decisions in an era when information is abundant and attention is scarce. PIL: During the 2018 Project Information Literacy News Study, we found slightly more than half of the nearly 6,000 students surveyed weren't confident they could tell fake news from reliable reporting, and more than a third said they doubted the credibility of all news. ./cache/projectinfolit-org-9818.html ./txt/projectinfolit-org-9818.txt