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How To Frame A Picture: A Digital Humanities Toolbox For Enhancing Visual Literacy Instruction, Nicole Fox
How To Frame A Picture: A Digital Humanities Toolbox For Enhancing Visual Literacy Instruction, Nicole Fox
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Teaching visual literacy isn’t always part of the bigger information literacy ‘picture’. “How to Frame a Picture” is a poster presentation that endeavors to help instruction librarians integrate more visual literacy instruction into their information literacy curriculum through the use of digital humanities tools. Each ACRL Visual Literacy standard is mapped to a curated selection of digital tools and sample projects, and attendees will have the opportunity to engage with the ‘toolbox’.
What Do High School Students Know About Information Literacy? A Case Study Of One University’S Feeder Schools, Melissa Correll
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
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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