Location
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
Start Date
7-24-2014 3:15 PM
End Date
7-24-2014 3:35 PM
Subjects
Information literacy -- Study and teaching -- Congresses, Library instruction
Description
Teaching a for-credit information literacy course can be viewed as hitting “prime time” for some librarians, but the courses can be as disjointed and problematic for the instructors as one-shot sessions. Projects are a hodgepodge of student-chosen or instructor-assigned “info lit” topics that fail to underscore the biggest problems for students in research: Developing a research question and writing a paper are difficult without enough background knowledge to understand the topic. At semester’s end, instructors may be feeling discouraged and wondering what students actually learned. Solution: Start the semester analyzing one topic to build a knowledge base for discussion and research, before allowing the students to pursue individual topics related to the central theme. Suggestions for how to select a successful theme to re-energize your teaching will be discussed.
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/14483
This a handout to accompany: "Unifying Ideas: Building For-Credit Information Literacy Around Themes to Optimize Student Learning"
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Unifying Ideas: Building For-Credit Information Literacy Around Themes to Optimize Student Learning
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
Teaching a for-credit information literacy course can be viewed as hitting “prime time” for some librarians, but the courses can be as disjointed and problematic for the instructors as one-shot sessions. Projects are a hodgepodge of student-chosen or instructor-assigned “info lit” topics that fail to underscore the biggest problems for students in research: Developing a research question and writing a paper are difficult without enough background knowledge to understand the topic. At semester’s end, instructors may be feeling discouraged and wondering what students actually learned. Solution: Start the semester analyzing one topic to build a knowledge base for discussion and research, before allowing the students to pursue individual topics related to the central theme. Suggestions for how to select a successful theme to re-energize your teaching will be discussed.