Teaching information literacy reframed : 50+ framework-based exercises for creating information-literate learners / Joanna M. Burkhardt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burkhardt, Joanna M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information literacy--Study and teaching (Higher).

Information literacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Neal-Schuman, c2016.

Summary:

ACRL's Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education have, since their adoption in 2, defined information literacy for librarians, educators, and assessment agencies. Earlier this year (215) at Midwinter, the ACRL Board voted to accept the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, which will stand aside and eventually replace or subsume the Standards. This new set of rules has represented an opportunity for us in terms of IL books, an area we do exceptionally well in, because the Framework is not just a revision but a new way of looking at IL--and the Framework is highly theoretical and written in an academic way that begs for translation into practical application, as the recently published Metaliteracy in Practice strives to do for parts of the Framework. Instruction librarians often have little or no training in teaching, creating content for teaching, setting learning outcomes, assessing outcomes, or creating learning objectives, and one person may be in charge of delivering the entire program of information literacy for an institution. This new set of guidelines for IL has sent already stressed IL librarians scarmbling for practical applications of the Framework. New instruction librarians often turn to short courses, books, and articles to find out how other people in the field provide instruction.In Teaching Information Literacy Reframed, Joanna M. Burkhardt, bestselling author in the field with 25 years of experience in teaching information literacy, decodes the Framework for Information Literacy and its six threshold concepts, offering practical advice and suggestions as to how to help students get started on the road to information literacy, and more than 5 classroom-ready Framework-based exercises that address each threshold concept at the beginner level, scaffolding to the intermediate level. It also offers best practices in creating learning outcomes, assessments, rubrics, and teaching tricks and tips.

Contents:

Teaching Information Literacy Reframed: 50+ Framework-Based Exercises for Creating Information-Literate Learners

Contents

Exercises

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Decoding the Framework for Information Literacy

Chapter 2. Scholarship as Conversation

Exercise 1. Informal Conversations

Exercise 2. Conversations between Experts

Exercise 3. Identifying Most Important or Most Cited Information

Exercise 4. Bias

Exercise 5. Evaluation of Sources

Exercise 6. Comparing Information

Exercise 7. Evaluating Different Types of Information Sources

Exercise 8. Sources That Disagree

Exercise 9. Confirmation Bias

Exercise 10. Confronting Confirmation Bias

Exercise 11. Changing Course

Chapter 3. Research as Inquiry

Exercise 12. Buying a Cell Phone: Narrowing the Options

Exercise 13. Narrowing a Topic

Exercise 14. Creating a Concept Map

Exercise 15. Creating an Outline

Exercise 16. Primary Sources

Exercise 17. Identifying Research Methods and Information Needs

Exercise 18. Who Would Know?

Exercise 19. Creating a Research Question Is Research!

Exercise 20. Asking Questions

Exercise 21. Analogies

Chapter 4. Authority

Exercise 22. Hurricane Information

Exercise 23. Are You an Authority?

Exercise 24. Political Pundits

Exercise 25. Thinking Critically about Authority

Exercise 26. Authority and Turmeric

Exercise 27. Authority in the Workplace

Chapter 5. Information Creation as a Process

Exercise 28. Logos and Mottoes

Exercise 29. Short Communications

Exercise 30. Comparing Efficacy and Limits of Brief Information

Exercise 31. Long Messages

Exercise 32. Nonverbal Messages

Exercise 33. Format Comparison

Exercise 34. Guess the Message

Exercise 35. Comparing Formats

Exercise 36. Statistics

Exercise 37. Visual Literacy.

Exercise 38. Evaluating Pictures

Chapter 6. Searching as Strategic Exploration

Exercise 39. Keywords

Exercise 40. Background Information

Exercise 41. Keyword Searching in the Library Catalog

Exercise 42. Defining Your Terms

Exercise 43. Using Boolean Searching

Exercise 44. Beyond Keywords

Exercise 45. Using a Thesaurus to Generate Search Terms

Exercise 46. Who Has Information?

Exercise 47. Database Smorgasbord

Exercise 48. Experts and Interviews

Exercise 49. Associations and Organizations

Exercise 50. Strategizing

Chapter 7. Information Has Value

Exercise 51. Citation Styles

Exercise 52. Citation Format Comparison

Exercise 53. Journal Cost Comparison

Exercise 54. Is It Free?

Exercise 55. Plagiarism

Exercise 56. Personal Information and Privacy

Exercise 57. Social Media and Privacy

Exercise 58. Privacy Issues

Chapter 8. Creating Exercises, Rubrics, Learning Outcomes, and Learning Assessments

Appendix. The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780838914526