The ultimate goal is to make information literacy an integral part of the academic curriculum, thus helping students to succeed not only during their years in college but also for their lifelong career choices.
discussion about librarian-faculty collaboration for developing information literacy skills among the students are considered briefly.
ACRL further describes information literacy as abilities to: a. Determine the extent of information needed b. Access the needed information effectively and efficiently c. Evaluate information and its sources critically d. Incorporate selected information into one’s knowledge base e. Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose f. Understand the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information, and access and use information ethically and legally.
That solution has two fundamental underpinnings: the first is that information literacy is an issue for every college and university; and the second is that librarians should occupy a position in attempts to define and achieve campus-wide information literacy.
While it is legitimate to use some of the information available on the web, students need to learn how to evaluate that information.
A study conducted by two researchers at the Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom found that 75% of the students surveyed used Google as their first port of call when locating information, with the university library catalogue used by only 10%.
In general, faculty members involved in the process were willing to collaborate with librarians who served as consultants, as instructors, and as team players in designing, teaching and implementing course assignmen
One particular model which has proven to be effective is course integrated instruction. With this model, librarians and teaching faculty co-design a course, and make sure that information literacy is incorporated in the course.
They not only sought to build short-term programmatic partnerships but more importantly, formal long-term working relationships with campus units, groups, departments and administrators.
“Integrating Literacy into the Liberal Arts College Curriculum.
launched a campaign to recruit faculty as partners in the process
took advantage of the liaison system already in place
Symposiums were organized for faculty and librarians to focus on assessment and science disciplines.
offered a workshop
More and more course-related or integrated instruction sessions have come to play a bigger role in making students more information literate.
Changing fee structures, student experience and access to digitized information on the internet, librarians have had to rethink their approach to teaching IL skills
McGuinness (2007) argues that librarians tend to act in a reactive manner to the needs of academics, rather than proactively to promote IL skills.
eads to ad hoc, short-term solutions designed only to address one or two issues.
dds that librarians should align their own goals of incorporating IL skills into the curriculum with the goals of academics and institutions to influence the power structures within institutions and help shape educational content.
highlights both the ambiguity around how IL should be taught, and the important role faculty awareness of IL and integration of library staff plays in integrating IL
unpack the “culture clash” between librarians and academics
cGuinness (2006) found that academics expected students to “learn by doing” through collaborative projects with peers and dissertation reports with occasional support from staff, without a clear sense of how students would develop critical and analytical IL skills
aculty also tended to believe that a student’s ability to gain IL skills were driven by the student’s own motivation, interests and innate abilities, rather than the quality and format of the available instructional opportunities
Multiple literacies, including digital, visual, textual, and technological, have now joined information literacy as crucial skills for this century”
These collaborative efforts have enabled librarians to encourage and support faculty in establishing learning priorities which will ensure that students be equipped with the competencies to become effective lifelong learners.
Only by establishing a successful partnership between librarians and faculty, can the goal of mastery of information literacy by students be accomplished.
The goal of librarian-faculty collaboration in integrating information literacy into the curriculum is to enable students to learn the skills and competencies needed for success during their life time
To make sure that everyone is able to become an educated, skilled, and information-literate person, librarians and faculty at institutions of higher education throughout the world will need to work together as partners to provide the education
A list of resources from ISTE that was published at the beginning of February. I am particularly interested in digging deeper into the "6 tips and 1 Activity" article and "A New Twist on Cyberbullying."
This is a blog post on the American College of Education website. It goes over the basics of digital citizenship (the who, what, where, etc.) and also shares some resources of teaching it.
This link has a bunch of articles that all fall under the umbrella of digital citizenship. I want to be able to go back and look through some of the more closely as I work on my change project.