Leveraging Resources Across Units And Universities To Address Academic Literacies And Research Skills In Ontario Graduate Students, Melanie Mills, Elan Paulson
Dec 2015
Leveraging Resources Across Units And Universities To Address Academic Literacies And Research Skills In Ontario Graduate Students, Melanie Mills, Elan Paulson
Melanie Mills
Student2Scholar (S2S) is a fully online and open course that aims to teach academic literacies and research skills to social science graduate students. Set to launch in December 2015, S2S was conceived of and created by a diverse and distributed team of academic librarians, university staff, and graduate students from three Ontario Universities: Western, the University of Toronto, and Queen’s. Members of the project team brought with them varying degrees of experience and expertise across a range of disciplinary and teaching and learning backgrounds, including: adult education, information literacy, and online learning (to name only a few).
S2S serves as …
Adventures In Assessment: Lib100 @ Clemson University, Anne Grant
Nov 2015
Adventures In Assessment: Lib100 @ Clemson University, Anne Grant
Anne Grant
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Collaborating Beyond The Campus: University Librarians In The K-12 Classroom, Gayle Schaub, Lindy Scripps-Hoekstra
Sep 2015
Collaborating Beyond The Campus: University Librarians In The K-12 Classroom, Gayle Schaub, Lindy Scripps-Hoekstra
Gayle Schaub
The challenge of developing information literate college students begins long before freshmen enter the university classroom. This presentation will detail a unique collaboration between academic librarians, an education professor, public librarians, and a middle school teacher to provide foundational information literacy workshops for sixth-grade students.
Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans For Librarians, Gayle Schaub, Patricia Bravender, Hazel Mcclure
May 2015
Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans For Librarians, Gayle Schaub, Patricia Bravender, Hazel Mcclure
Gayle Schaub
Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans for Librarians is a collection designed by instruction librarians to promote critical thinking and engaged learning. It provides teaching librarians detailed, ready-to-use, and easily adaptable lesson ideas to help students understand and be transformed by information literacy threshold concepts. The lessons in this book, created by teaching librarians across the country, are categorized according to the six information literacy frames identified in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education (2015). This volume offers concrete and specific ways of teaching the threshold concepts that are central to the ACRL Framework and is …
Not Just Where To Click : Teaching Students How To Think About Information, Heather Jagman, Troy Swanson
Feb 2015
Not Just Where To Click : Teaching Students How To Think About Information, Heather Jagman, Troy Swanson
Heather Jagman
Not Just Where to Click: Teaching Students How to Think about Information explores how librarians and faculty work together to teach students about the nature of expertise, authority, and credibility. It provides practical approaches for motivating students to explore their beliefs, biases, and ways of interpreting the world. This book also includes chapters that bridge the gap between the epistemological stances and threshold concepts held by librarians and faculty, and those held by students, focusing on pedagogies that challenge students to evaluate authority, connect to prior knowledge and construct new knowledge in a world of information abundance. Authors draw from …
Google Classroom For Librarians: Features And Opportunities, Amanda Izenstark, Katie L. Leahy
Dec 2014
Google Classroom For Librarians: Features And Opportunities, Amanda Izenstark, Katie L. Leahy
Amanda Izenstark
This is a pre-publication author manuscript of the final, published article.
Purpose: This paper shares possible opportunities for librarians, faculty, and students with access to Google Classroom, and includes a discussion of its application and functionality in formation literacy sessions.
Design/methodology/approach: This article describes the functionality of Google Classroom with a review of its capabilities for providing information literacy instruction based upon hands-on use in several classes and observation.
Findings: Google Classroom streamlined delivery of materials with students in one-time and multi-meeting classes. Students appreciated its seamless integration with their university email accounts.
Originality/value: Librarians teaching …
