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Framing Information Literacy: The Importance Of Setting The Stage, Beth Fuchs
Framing Information Literacy: The Importance Of Setting The Stage, Beth Fuchs
Library Presentations
Do students learn more when information literacy instruction is provided in-person by a librarian, mediated by their course instructor using a librarian-created tutorial, or self-paced using a tutorial? This presentation will focus on assessment results from a multi-sectioned college course targeting first-year students that explored this question and revealed an unexpected answer. Use the results, which are applicable to any instructional setting, to plan your next information literacy session.
Using The I-Learn Model For Information Literacy Instruction, Stacey Greenwell
Using The I-Learn Model For Information Literacy Instruction, Stacey Greenwell
Library Faculty and Staff Publications
With the increasing availability of information and the importance of lifelong information literacy (IL) skills, instructional designers, school media specialists, and librarians need to determine how to best design IL teaching in order to help students locate, evaluate, and use information more effectively. This paper describes the first experimental research study conducted to determine how teaching designed using the I-LEARN model could increase student understanding and application of IL concepts and offer recommendations for future implementations of the model. The experimental study described in this article examined whether IL skills teaching designed using the I-LEARN model increased student understanding and …