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Pedagogical Perspectives Of The Adp Digital Polarization Initiative, Jamie Addy, Jeff Dowdy Jun 2019

Pedagogical Perspectives Of The Adp Digital Polarization Initiative, Jamie Addy, Jeff Dowdy

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A presentation of assessment data generated by librarian led sections of GC1Y to teach students fact checking skills and other techniques to combat polarization in civic and digital life. Presented at the Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Conference 2019, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.


What Do High School Students Know About Information Literacy? A Case Study Of One University’S Feeder Schools, Melissa Correll Apr 2019

What Do High School Students Know About Information Literacy? A Case Study Of One University’S Feeder Schools, Melissa Correll

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This article describes a local study that seeks to illuminate first-year college students’ prior experiences with research and information literacy (IL) during high school. A small, suburban university surveyed and conducted interviews with librarians at the university’s feeder schools. The high school librarians rated students’ levels of proficiency in IL skills and described their school’s IL programs. Overall, librarians rated students’ IL levels as less than proficient and described several challenges to helping students improve these competencies, including teacher resistance, assignment design, and students’ habits around information. Opportunities exist for academic and school librarians to collaborate to improve IL instruction …


Finding Expertise In Your Own Backyard: Creating Communities Of Practice To Support Learning About The Framework, Amy Mars, Kim Pittman, Trent Brager Jan 2019

Finding Expertise In Your Own Backyard: Creating Communities Of Practice To Support Learning About The Framework, Amy Mars, Kim Pittman, Trent Brager

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