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Teaching Information Literacy, Heather Jagman, Michele Shade
Teaching Information Literacy, Heather Jagman, Michele Shade
Heather Jagman
In this age of information abundance, do you wonder if your students have the skills to recognize the kind of information they need to complete assignments, and then to locate, evaluate and use that information effectively? In this workshop, participants will develop an understanding of how to integrate information literacy skills into assignments and teaching in support of DePaul’s new university learning goals and strategic plan. The team of presenters will highlight national information literacy standards, provide an overview the DePaul University Library’s information literacy instruction program, and illustrate ways in which faculty and the library have collaborated to target …
Networks Of Power: The Second World And Ict, Susan Maret
Networks Of Power: The Second World And Ict, Susan Maret
Susan Maret
In 1906, sociologist Georg Simmel wrote that secrecy «secures, so to speak, the possibility of a second world alongside of the obvious world»[2]. In this article, I explore Simmel's second world of secrecy and its relationship to Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Technology is often thought of as «autonomous»[3], independent of human influence, and ethically neutral[4]. Through various examples, I hope to convince my readers that it is also political, and assists in not only maintaining freedom of information and expression, but secrecy as the consciously willed or intentional concealment of information[5]. What I term twilight domains of information, censorship, …