Call for Topic Editors, POEM
The editorial collective of POEM (Project on Open and Evolving Metaliteracies), a new IMLS-funded online publication, seeks thirty topic editors, ten in each area (AI and algorithmic literacy; data and computational literacy; media and mis/disinformation literacy) to join the project team for a 1.5-year period. The deadline to apply is January 4, 2025.
A $2,750 stipend is offered for this work.
Is there a topic related to AI and algorithms; data and computation; or media and mis- and dis-information that you don’t think is getting enough attention, or that you think is crucial for high schoolers and college students to learn about? Are you interested in helping create a resource to help teachers teach fluency and critical literacy in that area? Would you like to help curate a collection of high-quality, low-cost teaching and learning materials to help students learn about that topic?
POEM (Project on Open and Evolving Metaliteracies) will be an open educational resource containing peer-reviewed, bilingual (Spanish - English) essays, videos, online games, and other open educational resources in the broad field of information literacy. It will be a reliable library of curated and contextualized materials for teaching and learning, designed to help high school and college librarians and instructors.
What you will be doing
Each of these literacies is stewarded by two co-editors who will work with ten topic editors to build a collection of teaching and learning resources in the topic of their choice. These topics will be introduced, explained, and curated by an expert in the field, their editor (you!). You will seek out and bring together a collection of existing and new open teaching and learning resources that explicate, interrogate, and complicate the topic and provide opportunities for engagement across a range of modalities and learning styles.
This work will include:
- Proposing and refining a topic
- Authoring an introduction to that topic
- Developing a call for relevant teaching and learning objects
- Reviewing and selecting submitted materials
- Participation in the peer review process
- Verifying that materials are properly licensed
- Ensuring the development of the teaching and learning objects you select for your topic stay on schedule
- Creating tags for the content in your topic area
We are particularly excited to welcome applications from:
- Teachers and librarians at public high schools, community colleges, and HBCUs (and people who are connected to them)
- Data workers, activists, and practitioners (and people who are connected to them)
- People who have experience in and a professional commitment to equitable and antiracist practices
- People familiar with critical approaches to technology, data, and information
- People with previous experience working with open educational resources
- People with prior project management experience
To apply (and for additional information), please visit: https://library.cmu.edu/poem
