IFLA MLCE Guidelines for Effective, Easy to Implement, low-to-no Resource Media Literacy Interventions for Libraries and Information Professionals
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
01 May 2025
New Standards, Guidelines and Drafts
The guidelines describe on one side, the resource creation and knowledge sharing process from the library staff perspective and from the other side, the observations that came out of conducting the exhibit and workshops with people from different ages and backgrounds.
The project addressed the themes of: Screentime and wellbeing, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models, Environmental impact of technology, Gaming and the Labor behind technology.
The results are timely as they provide clarity on some modern paradoxes such as teenagers and young people being digital natives with high exposure to technology, but often lacking awareness of its ethical implications, environmental impact and of the invisible systems that sustain it. For adults and other age groups there was also a significant mismatch between exposure to content and understanding.
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