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The Multicultural Classroom: Plan, Build, Renew - Librarian As Constructivist Architect, Kimberly Davies Hoffman, Susan Preston Norman
The Multicultural Classroom: Plan, Build, Renew - Librarian As Constructivist Architect, Kimberly Davies Hoffman, Susan Preston Norman
LOEX Conference Proceedings 2008
Of New York State’s largest urban school districts, Rochester ranks lowest with an appalling graduation rate of 39%.1 With goals of keeping our poorest children in school and focusing their futures on college, SUNY Geneseo hosted 50 young “CSI candidates” who worked tirelessly to solve fictitious art thefts. Library research, blogging, public speaking, interviewing, forensic science, and digital photography were among the skills incorporated, forming a solid base of critical literacy for these young scholars. Milne Library helped create an educational yet recreational learning environment by offering instructors, classroom space, technology, potential suspects, and ultimately, one of the indicted “criminals.” …
Modeling Scholarly Inquiry: One Article At A Time, Anne Marie Gruber, Mary Anne Knefel, Paul Waelchli, Jessica Schreyer
Modeling Scholarly Inquiry: One Article At A Time, Anne Marie Gruber, Mary Anne Knefel, Paul Waelchli, Jessica Schreyer
LOEX Conference Proceedings 2008
Librarians and the Director of the Writing Center at the University of Dubuque describe how they teamed with English faculty to create and implement an assignment that incorporates critical thinking, ethical inquiry, and information literacy in a beginning composition and rhetoric class. In the assignment, a team of faculty, librarians, and writing tutors lead student peer groups as they write a research paper using common journal articles in support of a single thesis. Because a recent campus-wide ethics initiative frames this assignment, students examine topics that may challenge their existing beliefs. Librarians will also analyze qualitative data collected during the …