The University of Edinburgh is working with Education Scotland to help reform the curriculum to prepare people for the future where reality is contested on social media, there are fewer trusted institutions and thinking is outsourced to AI. They are currently at the ‘big ideas’ stage – formulating project’s guiding principles. So please join us online at 11am on Friday 6th September to explore this project and how it may make a difference to how we view the future. This event is online and open to all CILIP members.

This webinar will highlight these and also explore how libraries might contribute, for example:

• Pre-bunking is more effective than de-bunking. Lies travel the world before truth gets its boots on. Radicalisation is cheap and scalable, de-radicalisation is the opposite.
  
• Political and digital literacy are indivisible. In the recent election, populist movements such as Reform reached young people through social media including TikTok and YouTube. Yet, few young people understand why they were shown such content, what populism is, why its definition is contested and what it represents. There is a lot of evidence that digital platforms help radicalise their users. Yet, few young people understand why and how this is happening.
  
• Political and digital literacy are cross-curricula concerns. Every subject and subject teacher can contribute, and we’ll discuss how there can be a role for school libraries too.
  
• In the age of Chat-GPT (and other LLMs) critically informed human instructors are more impotent than ever. The AI is essentially a plagiarism engine that synthesises many sources. Its sources and epistemological intelligence are problematically limited. Moreover, bad faith actors are producing their own LLMs.

The zoom link will be sent to attendees in advance of the session, if you have any access requirements please add them to the registration form, or otherwise you can email admin@cilips.org.uk and we’ll be happy to help. Click here to register for your ticket now.