NSF Convergence Accelerator Track F: Adapting and Scaling Existing Educational Programs to Combat Inauthenticity and Instill Trust in Information

学习如何查找信息并评估其质量，对于做出明智的个人和公民决策以及民主的健康至关重要。这个项目将把人们的注意力从公共教育——利用现有的有效的、低成本的k-12干预措施——转移到公众教育上。通过一个为期三年的路线图，并与学术界、工业界、非营利组织和政府的合作伙伴一起，将产生一个以人为本的多学科设计过程，使有效的干预措施适应新的环境——基于该团队在信息社会学、有效的网络阅读实践、课程开发和大规模在线交付方面的专业知识。有效的方法将通过一个集成了教育干预和评估的开放软件平台进行传播。这一方法将在经常被排除在信息素养工作之外的人群中进行测试，这些人群可能更容易受到错误信息宣传的影响，例如高速互联网接入有限的农村和土著社区、退伍军人、老年人和军人家庭。该项目的第一阶段成果将是共同设计、测试、调整和扩大在教育环境中被证明有效的错误信息干预措施，并将其推广到更广泛的公众。在第一阶段，该项目将与图书馆和文化机构的召集人、倡导公民参与的蒙大拿人文学院（Humanities Montana）合作，调整行之有效的教育干预措施，在图书馆和其他社区环境中为包括土著居民在内的农村低收入公民服务。在第二阶段，这一设计过程将用于为正规教育系统之外的一系列群体创建有针对性的干预措施，这些群体容易受到错误信息宣传的影响。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Learning how to find information and assess its quality is essential to making informed personal and civic decisions -- and to the health of a democracy. This project will shift attention from public education--leveraging existing effective, low-cost k-12 interventions--to education of the public. Through a three-year road map, and with partners in academia, industry, nonprofit, and government, a multidisciplinary human-centered design process for adapting effective interventions to new contexts will be produced--based on the team’s expertise in the sociology of information, effective web reading practices, curriculum development, and online delivery at scale. Effective approaches will be disseminated through an open software platform that integrates educational interventions and assessment. This approach will be tested with populations often excluded from information literacy efforts and who may be more vulnerable to misinformation campaigns, such as rural and indigenous communities with limited access to high-speed internet, military veterans, older adults, and military families. The project’s Phase I output will be to co-design, test, adapt, and scale misinformation interventions that have proven effective within educational settings to the broader public. In Phase I, the project will work with Humanities Montana, a convener of libraries and cultural institutions and advocate for engaged citizenship, to adapt proven educational interventions to serve rural, low-income citizens, including indigenous populations, in libraries and other community settings. In Phase II, this design process will be used to create targeted interventions for a range of groups outside the formal educational system who are vulnerable to misinformation campaigns.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.