Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Was thinking about the connection between Information Literacy, Metaliteracy and Library Instruction ...Students will need the skills but not necessarily the terminology. Talking to first year and developmental education students this week made me think about how to talk about information- creation of, access to, understanding of, evaluation of, and use of which then leads to their creation of.. The students need to understand how information is created-either by friends, co-workers, themselves, hobbyists, reports, professionals, etc. (Yes, our system has been looking at UBD this year). Scaffolding these skills into their knowledge base and giving them life-long information literacy skills will have to include metaliteracy. We as a system are including many types of resources into our Libguides and this seems to be the way to push more of that information out to the students. This week I have read: Teaching Web Evaluation: a cognitive development approach Candice Benjes-Small, et. al. Communications in Information Literacy v.7 #1 2013 BEAM: A rhetorical vocabulary for teaching research-based writing Joseph Bizup. Rhetoric Review v.27 # 1 2008 Credibility on the internet: shifting from authority to reliability R. David Lankes Journal of Documentation v. 64 #5 2008 Plus Char Booth's blog and video