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Information Has Value Webcast - The Utility Of Social Media For Teaching Information Literacy, Nora Belzowski, Kristi Bugajski Aug 2018

Information Has Value Webcast - The Utility Of Social Media For Teaching Information Literacy, Nora Belzowski, Kristi Bugajski

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How to use inquiry-based learning techniques to teach the information literacy threshold concept Information Has Value to students in a science for non-majors biology course. The presenters also discussed the design, implementation, and assessment of a scalable lesson plan that addresses concepts and skills within the Information Has Value frame.


Integrating Information Literacy And Evidence-Based Medicine Content Within A New School Of Medicine Curriculum: Process And Outcome, Joanne M. Muellenbach, Kathryn M. Houk, Dana E. Thimons, Bredny Rodriguez Mar 2018

Integrating Information Literacy And Evidence-Based Medicine Content Within A New School Of Medicine Curriculum: Process And Outcome, Joanne M. Muellenbach, Kathryn M. Houk, Dana E. Thimons, Bredny Rodriguez

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This column describes a process for integrating information literacy (IL) and evidence-based medicine (EBM) content within a new school of medicine curriculum. The project was a collaborative effort among health sciences librarians, curriculum deans, directors, and faculty. The health sciences librarians became members of the curriculum committees, developed a successful proposal for IL and EBM content within the curriculum, and were invited to become course instructors for Analytics in Medicine. As course instructors, the librarians worked with the other faculty instructors to design and deliver active learning class sessions based on a flipped classroom approach using a proprietary Information Mastery …


Finding Empirical Articles For Psychology, Allison Faix Jan 2018

Finding Empirical Articles For Psychology, Allison Faix

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This article is chapter 31 from volume 4 (Information Creation as a Process) of the six-volume book series Framing Information Literacy, which was published by ACRL in 2018. This article describes a lesson plan that uses constructivist learning theory and the Information Creation as Process Frame. The lesson plan helps students identify and locate empirical journal articles in the field of psychology.