Alison J. Head

📣 Announcing PIL’s latest project! A survey of U.S. residents 16-85 investigating how encounters with climate change news & information shape Americans' disparate responses to the worldwide climate crisis. Learn more: projectinfolit.org/pil-public-v1/…

@ProjectInfoLit @alisonjhead Thank you for sharing. I am delighted to share my latest peer reviewed article on the 7 sources of all impartiality. I propose this as the first information literacy step. Also, discover where AI might fall in the seven. Tinyurl.com/bean7sources

@pdjewell @lisagiven @EmiliaCaraBell @rebekahwillson @asist_org @AcadSocSci @RMIT @ResearchRMIT @ProjectInfoLit Congrats on your new book @lisagiven, what an exciting accomplishment that looks intriguing and informative (+ warm thanks @pdjewell!)

@lisagiven @EmiliaCaraBell @rebekahwillson @asist_org @AcadSocSci @RMIT @ResearchRMIT Awesome outcome Lisa. Look forward to getting in our library and sharing with colleagues. Definite synergies with our good friends @ProjectInfoLit @alisonjhead

My new book (with Donald O. Case and @rebekahwillson) is out now! We explore decades of international research on people’s engagement with information, with sections on #misinformation #Covid_19 #SDGs #researchdesigns and so much more! @asist_org @AcadSocSci @RMIT @ResearchRMIT

A helpful commentary on how we should be responding to ChatGPT in higher education by Barbara Fister and @alisonjhead insidehighered.com/opinion/views/…

Getting a Grip on ChatGPT insidehighered.com/opinion/views/… (comparisons to Wikipedia when it was new) #AI #MoralPanic #ChatGPT

Whew, this sentence is an excellent button: "By avoiding taking a position on truth, ChatGPT can be fine-tuned to give users the answers they prefer." Great article from @alisonjhead and Barbara Fister abt info literacy and ChatGPT: insidehighered.com/opinion/views/…

Excited to hear my friend Michael Flierl talk about mis/dis-info on social media at #LILAC23!

They cite Bull, Alaina C., @MargyMacLibrary & @alisonjhead, “Dismantling the evaluation framework,” In the Library with the Lead Pipe (2021): 294-314. inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2021/dismantli… “This approach can lead students to understand the hardest parts of evaluating online sources.”

#PILCited- great to see our work on proactive evaluation informing this useful survey: Sye, D., & Thompson, D.S. (2023). “Tools, tests, and checklists: The evolution and future of source evaluation frameworks.”Journal of New Librarianship, 8(1), 76–100. newlibs.org/index.php/jonl…

@kafurlong @BucknellLIT @ProjectInfoLit @BucknellU Excited to be chatting virtually at Bucknell today to talk to librarians and faculty about how we can help students succeed.

Loooking forward to @BucknellLIT's Virtual Chat with @ProjectInfoLit' s @alisonjhead this afternoon... @BucknellU folks, let me know if you can't join us at 2 in the Terrace Room and need a zoom link... #informationliteracy projectinfolit.org

After a busy year, we are taking a break for the holiday season. In the meantime you can find all of our reports, interviews, and updates on the Project Information Literacy website -  projectinfolit.org.

New on ifp.nyu.edu | The Project Information Literacy retrospective | tinyl.io/7IO8

This 22-page report summarizes PIL's research on college students for the first time, all 14 years and all 12 major studies. "The Project Information Literacy Retrospective: Insights from more than a decade of information literacy research, 2008-2022" ow.ly/BlyR50LjAW8

New retrospective report from Project Literacy! projectinfolit.org/pubs/retrospec… #informationliteracy #lesacrl

Heard the latest @T_Swanson interview with @alisonjhead for @circideas about PIL’s Retrospective report? (circulatingideas.com/2022/12/01/230…) Curious about using PIL’s findings in your work? Book a virtual chat for your institution! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

“What makes PIL unique is it grew organically….People wanted to be in the sample. Different librarians made this study. Without them, the study would’ve never taken off. I owe huge thanks to them as well.” PIL’s Director @alisonjhead in @circideas podcast circulatingideas.com/2022/12/01/230…

“We see information literacy needing to move towards more proactive recognition of what’s happening with information systems …” Learn more about the history of PIL and what’s on the horizon as @T_Swanson interviews @alisonjhead on @circideas circulatingideas.com/2022/12/01/230…

Just a reminder, all of our reports, interviews, and updates can be found on the Project Information Literacy website -  projectinfolit.org. We will be maintaining a presence on Twitter for now, but you might want to bookmark our site for easy access to our materials.

As we wrote “The PIL Retrospective”, we reflected on the changes we’ve seen since 2008. “Though the world of information has undergone a transformation since PIL’s founding, students tell us education for information literacy, for the most part, has not.” projectinfolit.org/publications/r…

Last month we launched “The PIL Retrospective: Insights from more than a decade of information literacy research, 2008-2022,” with summaries of 12 studies involving over 20,000 participants at 91 colleges and universities projectinfolit.org/publications/r…