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Be Media Smart: A National Media Literacy Campaign For Ireland. Invited Speaker, Unesco Global Media And Information Literacy Feature Conference, Philip Russell Sep 2019

Be Media Smart: A National Media Literacy Campaign For Ireland. Invited Speaker, Unesco Global Media And Information Literacy Feature Conference, Philip Russell

Conference Papers

‘Be Media Smart’ is an Irish public awareness campaign calling on people of all ages to ‘Be Media Smart’ and ‘Stop, Think, and Check’ that information they see, read or hear across any media platform is accurate and reliable. This national media literacy campaign was aimed at enhancing people’s understanding of, and engagement with, media, while also empowering them with the skills to evaluate content across all platforms.


Decision-Based Learning For Info Literacy One-Shots, David Pixton Jul 2019

Decision-Based Learning For Info Literacy One-Shots, David Pixton

Faculty Publications

An online instructional framework, called “decision-based learning,” helps students learn to think like an expert through making a series of simple decisions that the expert has trained into his or her thought patterns. This framework is currently being tested in one-hour information literacy workshops for engineering and technology students. This lightning talk briefly describes the decision-based learning method and results of this study so far.


Pedagogical Perspectives Of The Adp Digital Polarization Initiative, Jamie Addy, Jeff Dowdy Jun 2019

Pedagogical Perspectives Of The Adp Digital Polarization Initiative, Jamie Addy, Jeff Dowdy

Library Faculty Scholarship

A presentation of assessment data generated by librarian led sections of GC1Y to teach students fact checking skills and other techniques to combat polarization in civic and digital life. Presented at the Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Conference 2019, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.


Skipping Stones: The Ripple Effect Of Collaborating With A Center For Teaching And Learning, Clinton K. Baugess, Kerri Odess-Harnish May 2019

Skipping Stones: The Ripple Effect Of Collaborating With A Center For Teaching And Learning, Clinton K. Baugess, Kerri Odess-Harnish

All Musselman Library Staff Works

Collaborating with your campus teaching and learning center is a key way to center the library at the heart of conversations on creative pedagogy and student learning. Librarians at a small college library will share how their collaboration has enabled their information literacy program to ripple across campus – expanding their teaching practice beyond the usual one-shot and shifting faculty perceptions of librarians as classroom partners. The presenters will describe how they have contributed their expertise to teaching center programming and administered a series of center-funded faculty grants for information literacy, digital literacy, and teaching with archival materials.