Education - Information Matters

June 8, 2026 Misty Trunnell

Parents Want Help with Clearing Information Landmines: Information Literacy Programs for Parents of Children Under Twelve

Considering the ubiquity of devices available to children and content created for them, parents of children 12 and younger should be targeted as a specific group for new information literacy programs. A May 2025 Pew Research Center survey reported that parents of children 12 and younger allow their children to use various devices (TVs, tablets, smart phones) to access platforms (YouTube and social media), for reasons such as entertainment, learning, staying connected, and calming down. Parents of the same survey also reported that smartphones and content created for social media is more harmful that beneficial and that tech companies and law makers should do more to prevent harms. They also reported challenges about deciding what to allow and how to manage screentime for their children. Many reported they felt a need to improve their decision making related to screentime and content. Today, families are less likely to receive instruction and support from libraries to evaluate technology and content for children than in the past due to more option to access devices and information.

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May 17, 2026 Azeez Adeoye

The Art of Scholarly Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Assessing, Organising, and Using Academic Literature

Research is a lifelong intellectual endeavour that transcends academic qualifications, professional status, and social background. Whether one is an undergraduate student, postgraduate scholar, healthcare practitioner, policymaker, entrepreneur, volunteer, or independent learner, research remains indispensable to growth, innovation, and societal advancement. Indeed, every meaningful improvement in human endeavour is rooted in the ability to seek, evaluate, and apply credible knowledge. Research, therefore, is not merely an academic requirement; it is a systematic and continuous process of building upon existing knowledge to solve emerging challenges and expand the frontiers of understanding.

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May 15, 2026 Dionar Acosta

Kapwa and Believability: How YouTube Content Becomes Public Knowledge

This article explores how YouTube content becomes believable enough to shape public knowledge. Drawing from Filipino Personhood Theory, it argues that believability emerges through Kapwa, Pakikiramdam, and Kagandahang-loob—forms of relational trust, communicative sensitivity, and moral credibility that extend beyond algorithms and visibility metrics.

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May 3, 2026 Nicole A. Cooke

When Censorship Breaks Mirrors: Why Critical Cultural Literacy Depends on Diverse Stories

Imagine a fourteen-year-old sitting on the floor of a library, flipping through a book they found almost by accident. The main character shares something deeply personal with them. For the first time, their life is not treated as unusual or controversial. It is simply there. Then the book is removed. No announcement. No explanation. Just absence. The message lands anyway. Your story is a problem. This moment captures what is often missing from public conversations about censorship. When books disappear, the impact is not abstract. It shapes how young people understand themselves, how they understand others, and how they learn to think.

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May 1, 2026 Ronald Andoh-Kwaw

From Keyword to Conversation: What LLMs Change (and Don’t) About Library Discovery in Ghana’s Colleges of Education

Picture a student-teacher at a College of Education in Ghana, preparing a lesson on early childhood literacy. She approaches the library catalogue terminal, types a few keywords, “early childhood reading Ghana”, and receives a handful of results, most of them older texts with limited relevance to the Ghanaian classroom. She leaves with less than she came for. Now imagine the same student interacting with a library interface powered by a large language model: she types, in her own words, “I need materials about teaching children to read in Ghanaian primary schools.” The system responds conversationally, surfaces related resources, and asks whether she would like materials that address mother-tongue-based multilingual education. Something has clearly shifted. But as a college librarian in Ghana, I find myself asking: how deep does that shift really go and for whom?

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April 9, 2026 Nicole A. Cooke

When Power Confronts Excellence: What Auriemma, Staley, and the 2026 Final Four Reveal About Representation and Leadership in LIS

Auriemma and Staley belong in a conversation about representation and leadership in LIS because the same racialized and interpretive pattern of disruption appears here too. LIS describes itself as progressive, inclusive, and equity minded, but Cooke and Kitzie (2021) argue that marginalized scholars and practitioners still function as outsiders within, included inside institutions that were not built with them in mind. Cooke and Green (2023) make a related point in their call for inclusive leadership, arguing that LIS leadership models have too often reflected structures that privilege white men and exclude others from full authority.

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April 8, 2026 Jason R. Baron

Same Class, New Approach: Reimagining Information Students’ Use of Gen AI in Formative Writing Assessments

We began teaching an online class about records scandals in 2023, at the very beginning of what would become the gen AI takeover. In 2024, we found that 67 of our 100 students used gen AI on the first essay assignment despite our express prohibition of its use—in any capacity. So, we had to pivot our teaching approach. By 2025, we actually asked students to use gen AI in their work in order to learn from it. Here, we lay out the changes we made and how we’re using gen AI in our writing instruction to build critical thinking skills and AI literacy.

Education Translation

April 7, 2026 Angelica Lo Duca

From Content Generation to Content Validation: Why Human Judgment Still Matters in the AI Era

In the past year, the focus of AI in education has shifted from generating content to evaluating its quality. While large language models can now produce vast amounts of material in seconds, ensuring that this content is accurate, reliable, and pedagogically sound remains a challenge. Emerging research shows that using AI as an evaluator is still unreliable, making human judgment more essential than ever. In this new paradigm, the real bottleneck is no longer creation but validation.

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March 26, 2026 Azeez Adeoye

Beyond the Library Desk, From Citation to Reputation: Librarians and the Future of African University Rankings

Librarians are critical stakeholders in enhancing the global visibility and competitiveness of Nigerian universities. Across the world, universities are evaluated and ranked based on well-established performance benchmarks. Achieving these benchmarks requires deliberate institutional strategies, sustained research productivity, and strong academic support systems.

Education Opinion

March 21, 2026 Azeez Adeoye

Digital Cocaine: The Business Model of AI Addiction, When the Savior Becomes the Dictator

When artificial intelligence systems were first introduced to the public around 2022, they were celebrated as revolutionary assistants, tools designed to augment human productivity, creativity, and efficiency. The early versions were freely accessible or offered generous trial capabilities. Students used them to summarize readings; professionals used them to draft emails; programmers relied on them to debug code. The public welcomed these tools with enthusiasm, regarding them as the next great step in technological progress. Yet by 2026, the situation has evolved in ways that invite deeper reflection.