Facebook to Support Digital Literacy in Myanmar
We are so excited for our friends at Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation (MBAPF), for their recent partnership with Facebook, to create safe and meaningful digital literacy experiences. Facebook is working with MBAPF to add more content to the Mobile Information Literacy (MIL) …
Mobile Information Literacy – Net Inclusion Lightning Talk
Research Coordinator Stacey Wedlake is attending the 2018 Net Inclusion Summit in Cleveland, Ohio organized the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA). While at the conference, she’ll present a Lightning Talk on TASCHA’s Mobile Information Literacy Curriculum. Here are her …
Mobile Information Literacy Training: After Action Review
At TASCHA, as part of our larger goal to improve organizational learning, we’re experimenting with using After Action Reviews (AAR) at the conclusion of an event or a phase of a project. AARs provide a structured format for reflection in order to learn from the experience. Additionally, since …
Mobile Information Literacy training in Nakuru, Kenya
During the week of March 12, in partnership with EIFL and Kenya National Library Service (KNLS), TASCHA Research Coordinator Stacey Wedlake conducted a training on Mobile Information Literacy to 20 librarians in Nakuru, Kenya. The training covered the Mobile Internet, how to safely choose and …
TASCHA looks forward to a week of Mobile Learning
The last week of March marks the annual Mobile Learning Week, UNESCO and the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) flagship ICT in education event. TASCHA’s Director Chris Coward and researchers Stacey Wedlake and Maria Garrido will be traveling to UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris to …
World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
The theme for World Telecommunication and Information Society Day 2017 is “Big Data for Big Impact,” with an emphasis on the role advanced analysis can play in development goals. At TASCHA, our work explores this crucial space where decisions resulting in major social change and …
TASCHA to attend iConference 2017
TASCHA researchers will be in Wuhan, China for the annual 2017 iConference taking place March 22-25. The TASCHA team will once again join scholars and researchers from around the world concerned with critical information issues in contemporary society to collaborate, share, and explore. The …
The role of public libraries in the Brave New World of Truth
Libraries are … essential to the functioning of a democratic society … libraries are the great symbols of the freedom of the mind. — Franklin D. Roosevelt When you think of your community’s public library, do you picture a political nexus that holds the power to influence the …
Mobile Information Literacy: The ripple effect in Myanmar
The Mobile Information Literacy project is a growing collection of training materials that are designed to adapt to community and individual needs. The first MIL curriculum was introduced in Myanmar in 2015, and we are now beginning to see the resounding effects this educational program has had …
Notes from the field: Creating a mobile information literacy program in Kenya
In November 2016, TASCHA Research Analyst Chris Rothschild and I visited Kenya to explore working with EIFL and Kenya National Library Services (KNLS) to develop mobile information literacy curriculum and training for Kenya’s public library staff and patrons. Our visit was a jam-packed week …