The document discusses the need for students to develop transliteracy skills to effectively evaluate and interact with information across different media and platforms, and proposes metaliteracy as a framework to promote critical thinking and collaboration in a digital age through understanding various information formats and producing original content in multiple media. It also provides examples of how social bookmarking tools and online workshops can help develop these skills.

1. From Information Literacy to TransliteracyPreparing our Students for Open LearningKim Balko, Dana Longley and Thomas Mackey

2. A Greater Cause?Excerpt from ESC Core Values:“sustain life-long curiosity and critical inquiry” “the key to a democratic society is the ability of the population to access and handle information effectively and efficiently.” - William BadkeBadke, W. (2010). Foundations of Information Literacy: Learning From Paul Zurkowski. Online, 34(1), 48-50. Retrieved from Academic Search Complete database.

3. The Need87% of students may be “information illiterate” 1Primary student sources: textbooks and Google2Students “miss opportunities that college education provides for exploration, discovery, and deep learning.” 3Foster, A. (2006). Students Fall Short on 'Information Literacy,' Educational Testing Service's Study Finds. Chronicle of Higher Education, 53(10), A36. Retrieved from Academic Search Complete database: http://bit.ly/cnxwEx A. Head and M. Eisenberg, "Lessons Learned: How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age," Project Information Literacy Progress Report, Information School, Univ. of Washington, Dec 1, 2009.Sharon A. Weiner, “Information Literacy: A Neglected Core Competency,” EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 33(1), 2010.

4. Thoughts?What information skills should a successful student (and citizen) possess?Are students given enough opportunities (and motivation) to acquire these skills?

5. ESC GEAR DataData source: Empire State College Fact Book, Eighth Edition 2008-09, p. 96

6. Objective: get students from hereTo here:

7. Emerging Literacy Frameworks7

8. T R A N S L I T E R A C Y8

9. Transliteracy Research Group“Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.”9http://nlabnetworks.typepad.com/transliteracy/

10. “Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading”Established 2005

11. Interdisciplinary research team in humanities, social sciences, and engineering

12. University of California, Santa Barbara10http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu/category/research-project

13. Transliterate“to write or print a letter or word using the closest corresponding letters of a different alphabet or language.”11http://crln.acrl.org/content/71/10/532.full

14. Transliteracy“mapping meaning across different media and not with developing particular literacies about various media.”12http://crln.acrl.org/content/71/10/532.full

15. Transliteracy“It is not about learning text literacy and visual literacy and digital literacy in isolation from one another but about the interaction among all these literacies.”13http://crln.acrl.org/content/71/10/532.full

16. ShareSocial MediaDetermineINFORMATIONLITERACYProduceAccessEvaluateUseM E T A L I T E R C YSocial MediaSocial MediaUnderstandSocial MediaIncorporate14

17. Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy Coll. res. libr. January 2011 72:62-78 http://crl.acrl.org/content/72/1/62.abstract15

18. 16

19. Metaliteracy“promotes critical thinking and collaboration in a digital age, providing a comprehensive framework to effectively participate in social media and online communities. ”17Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy Coll. res. libr. January 2011 72:62-78 http://crl.acrl.org/content/72/1/62.abstract

20. Metaliteracy“Information literacy is central to this redefinition because information takes many forms online and is produced and communicated through multiple modalities. ”18Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy Coll. res. libr. January 2011 72:62-78 http://crl.acrl.org/content/72/1/62.abstract

21. Metaliteracy in PracticeUnderstand Format Type and Delivery ModeEvaluate User Feedback as Active ResearcherCreate a Context for User-generated InformationEvaluate Dynamic Content Critically19Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy Coll. res. libr. January 2011 72:62-78 http://crl.acrl.org/content/72/1/62.abstract

22. Metaliteracy in PracticeProduce Original Content in Multiple Media FormatsUnderstand Personal Privacy, Information Ethics and Intellectual Property IssuesShare Information in Participatory Environments20Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy Coll. res. libr. January 2011 72:62-78 http://crl.acrl.org/content/72/1/62.abstract

23. Nursing Research CourseIntegrated approach to information literacy.

24. Social Bookmarking Tool-Diigo

25. Assignment: Find, read and bookmark 15 peer reviewed articles over a 3 module period (6 weeks). Reason for AssignmentWorking on beginning components of a research paper.

26. Produce drafts throughout course.

27. Final paper presented during last week. Why Use Diigo?Conducting online research

28. Incorporate citations in APA

29. Annotated bibliographies

30. Share references with peers

31. Create an online repositoryPositive UsesCan make groups private

32. Instructor can give feedback to students on quality of articles

33. Free technologyAnother Example: @Home Library WorkshopsMethods: Active (hands-on)

34. Multimodal (audio, text, visual)Needed (or next)?: Assignment- or course-integration

35. Small group exercises