TILT
● NATURE OF KNOWLEDGE
An award-winning model for responsibly navigating scientific, cultural, and media claims.
FRAMEWORK
TRAINING PROGRAM
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PROJECT OVERVIEW
TILT (twenty first century information literacy tools) was first constructed in 2013 as one of the foundational components of The Plenary. It is a practical model synthesizing multidisciplinary evidence and insights on how to responsibly navigate information in the current media system. Translated into a workshop and presented nationwide, the model continues to serve as a core pillar for much of our work.
Project Goals
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Skills & Sensibilities
Our current media system requires holistic, psychological, and systems level habits of mind.
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Interactive Exercises
We develop hands-on activities and case studies that demonstrate core concepts.
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Real World Contexts
TILT is anchored by practical and relatable examples and scenarios.
NAVIGATING THE CHALLENGES OF THE INFORMATION AGE
We can’t unlock collective knowledge without responsible curation, nuance, and synthesis.
Since the dawn of the Internet, public access to society’s collective knowledge has dramatically increased. But so has access to lies and fabrications, with the lines between the two often blurred by the power of media, marketing, and our own biases. Our society has entered a state of information abundance without signs of slowing down. According to Technorati – a web formula that counts social media posts - over 4 million new blog posts are uploaded per day.
When everything is at our fingertips and there are few ways to tell the difference between high and low quality content, how do we know what to trust? When credibility is clouded by name recognition, how do we know whom to trust? And when new knowledge can be released the same day that it was discovered, leaving little time for replication or debate, how do we know when to trust?
These are the kinds of questions TILT sets out to explore.
