The document discusses the use of inquiry-based learning to enhance information literacy as outlined in ACRL's revised framework, emphasizing the importance of student-led investigations of complex questions. It highlights the benefits of assessing students through authentic assessment rather than merely evaluating the framework itself. The authors encourage a collaborative and open teaching approach to stimulate curiosity and holistic thinking in the classroom.

1. Using Inquiry-Based Learning to Tackle
ACRL’s Revised Information Literacy Framework
Threshold Concept
Andy Burkhardt - @vonburkhardt
Alan Carbery - @acarbery
Secret Sauce

2. Ingredients

3. INQUIRY-BASED
learning

4. Inquiry-guided learning (IGL) promotes the acquisition of new
knowledge, abilities, and attitudes through students'
increasingly independent investigation of questions, problems,
and issues, for which there often is no single answer.”
– Virginia Lee

6. What does it
look like?

7. Let us inquire
together

8. Teach with your
mouth shut

9. Give up
control

10. No single right answer

11. Why Inquiry?

12. Problem
Solving

13. Curiosity

14. Holistic
thinking

15. Some we prepared
earlier

16. Concepts of Community
& the Annotated Bibliography

21. YOUR
TURN

22. Think about a time when a question
really energized a classroom or
other kind of learning experience?
What was the question?
Why was it successful?

23. Core 250 -
Ethnography

24. Research
AS inquiry

25. Giving People the
Opportunity to tell their story

26. What Might Be some advantages
over Text-Based Research?

27. Sweet Treats

28. Sweet Treats
Assessment

29. How do we assess
threshold concepts?
The Framework?

30. Pro tip!

31. Pro tip!
We don’t!

32. We assess students!

33. Authentic Assessment – using
real-life student coursework

34. How will we know student success
when we see it?

35. closing the learning loop using
the Framework

36. Digestif?
@acarbery
acarbery@champlain.edu
@vonburkhardt
aburkhardt@champlain.edu