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Information Literacy Instruction Esther Grassian IS245 8 Jul 2010

Cards…

their topics

Topics
BI & IL
Teaching & Learning
Libraries & Information-Seeking
Q & A

BI & IL: What are they?

Information Literacy (IL)
Ability to identify, locate, evaluate and use information effectively and ethically or responsibly
Close to ALA Presidential Committee on IL, Final Report (1989)
ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (2001)
AASL Standards for the 21 st Century Learner

Go to the Learners…
Podcasts
Online Tutorials & Exercises
Road to Research (UCLA)
Begin Research (UC Irvine)
Videos
Weigle Information Commons Music Video

More…
MySpace
Facebook
Blogs, IM & texting for reference
Twitter
Mobile Apps
Other Social Networking Sites & Tools
Second Life

Broader Scope..
IL in Accreditation Standards
ETS & Certiport: ICT Literacy; iCritical Thinking
Project SAILS

Questions?

Active Learning?
Flickr: Edublogger 13 Jun 2007

Active Learning
“… having learners do …, write …, say something, play games, get up, move around, interact , … take part in learning …[&] in thinking about their own learning…”
Grassian & Kaplowitz, Information Literacy Instruction: Theory and Practice ( 2009)

Broadening a Topic
“ Chicana painters of the 1990s in L.A. used art to focus attention on political issues.”

Brainstorming Search Words
Chicana
painters
L.A.
political issues

Related words…
Chican*
Hispanic
Latin*
artist*
Los Angeles
California
politic*

Broader Topic/Argument
“ From 1990 through 2005, Chicano/a artists in California used art to focus attention on political issues.”

Narrowing a Broad Topic
“ Gender issues”

Using Topic Limiters
Broad topic: Gender issues
Limiters…
Timeframe : 1995-2005
Geographic Region : California
Person/Group : African-American women
Event/Aspect: Higher education & state politics

Topic Sentence/Argument
“ Over a ten-year period in California, from 1995 to 2005, African-American women with higher education degrees had an increasing impact on state politics.”

You try it!
Immigration – use 1 or more limiters:
Timeframe
Geographic region
Person/group
Event/aspect
Focused Argument or Topic Sentence

Questions…
What did you like?
How would you do them differently?

Flickr.com: Think Pair Share. Uploaded 8 June 2006, by NCavillones

Self-Reflection…

METACOGNITION

Exercises in Context!

ILI Planning Elements
Goal(s)
Expected Learning Outcome(s)
Audience
Type of Info Resource
Learning Time
Instructional Format

Questions?

What stuck?
What did you find meaningful?
Want more?
Verbotomy
http://www.verbotomy.com/blog/?p=433

Remember to…
Respect the past
Use technology judiciously
Take pleasure in empowering learners!

Is245 2 11 09 7 8 10

by Esther Grassian on Jul 15, 2010

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