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Heather Jagman

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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 …

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Teaching Information Literacy, Heather Jagman, Michele Shade Nov 2012

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 …

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