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Abstract: The negative effects of misinformation and disinformation on the society prompt the educational sciences to develop approaches to increasing Internet users’ information literacy. One of the possible ways to achieve this is to inoculate them with insight in mass communication techniques, particularly in news framing. This talk provides an overview over several psychological and educational studies on information literacy training. A first study is based on analysis of the online dialog initiated by misinformation, and shows how the framing of posted news predict features of the subsequent online dialog, such as emotions, argumentation, and knowledge construction. Building upon this finding, three further studies with participants of diverse age, including elementary school students, address the effects of information literacy training on participants’ ability to discern real from fake news. As these effects were significant and positive, thus encouraging, the presentation concludes with a design study combining instructional design elements in order to develop information literacy training environments.
Nic. Nistor studied Electrical Engineering at „Politehnica“ University of Bucharest, earned his doctoral degree in year 2000 in Educational Sciences at the LMU, where he also completed his professorial dissertation in 2012 and serves as a professor since 2019. He teaches Educational Psychology of Teaching and Learning and Knowledge Media for students of Educational Sciences and teacher students. His research includes the design and evaluation of media-based learning environments, the acceptance of educational technologies, online communities, learning analytics, and media literacy focused on fake news. He is a member of the Munich Center of the Learning Sciences and an associate editor of „Computers in Human Behavior."