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

学习如何找到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发展至关重要。该项目将把注意力从公共教育（利用现有的有效、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，将产生一个多学科的以人为本的设计过程，以适应新的环境有效的干预措施-基于团队在信息社会学，有效的网络阅读实践，课程开发和大规模在线交付的专业知识。有效的方法将通过整合教育干预和评估的开放软件平台传播。这种方法将在经常被排除在信息扫盲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运动的影响，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。该项目第一阶段的产出将是共同设计、测试、调整和扩大在教育环境中向更广泛的公众证明有效的错误信息干预措施。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合作，调整经过验证的教育干预措施，在图书馆和其他社区环境中为农村低收入公民，包括土著居民服务。在第二阶段，这个设计过程将被用来创建有针对性的干预措施，为一系列群体以外的正规教育系统谁是容易受到误导campaigns.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得的支持，通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

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.