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Participatory Technologies, Pedagogy 2.0 And Information Literacy, Meredith G. Farkas
Participatory Technologies, Pedagogy 2.0 And Information Literacy, Meredith G. Farkas
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Purpose: This paper seeks to explore the impact participatory technologies have had on education and the information environment in which students operate. It seeks to define a pedagogical approach that will capitalize on the benefits of participatory technologies in the classroom and applies this "pedagogy 2.0" to information literacy instruction.
Design/methodology/approach: A thorough literature review was conducted on the use of participatory technologies in education as well as theories related to collaborative learning. This review formed the basis of the proposed pedagogy 2.0 model.
Findings: Web 2.0 and the growth in use of participatory technologies has had a tremendous impact …
Research Guide Technologies, Meredith G. Farkas
Research Guide Technologies, Meredith G. Farkas
Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations
Research guides (also known as subject guides, course guides, or pathfinders) provide targeted information on a particular topic to support student or faculty research in that area. Similar instructional tools have been around since before the birth of the web, but are now almost exclusively provided by libraries online as part of the library’s web presence. Research guide software enables librarians without web design skills to quickly and easily create and update web content. The technologies for creating research guides run the gamut from proprietary and open source software specifically designed for creating guides to open source and third-party-hosted applications …