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Nessa Vahedian Khezerlou

Adjunct Reference & Instruction Librarian
Joliet Junior College & College of DuPage
smiling white woman with curly hair

Nessa is a librarian at Joliet Junior College (JJC) and the College of DuPage (COD). She holds an MLIS from UW-Madison and an undergraduate degree from UIowa. Her practice focuses on critical pedagogy and constructivist learning, helping students find nuance in complex information landscapes. She empowers students to move from passive consumption to active, skeptical research—proving that critical thinking is pretty lit. I can be reached most easily at my personal email address nessavahedian@gmail.com.

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Resources Contributed

Behind the Chatbot: Interactive AI Mechanics
This interactive flipped classroom or workshop activity explores generative AI by seamlessly blending a self-guided AI conversation with an in-depth workshop connecting information literacy frameworks, LLM mechanics, ethics, and prompt engineering. Try it yourself: Use the link below to launch Behind the Chatbot and work through the same asynchronous, self-paced conversation your students will experience — no setup required, just click through it on your own. Part 1: Pre-Class Activity — Behind…
That's What She Said: Citation Chasing
Learning Objectives By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
  1. Navigate the library discovery tool and Google Scholar to locate articles and books
  2. Perform backward and forward citation chasing to identify related sources
  3. Create a properly formatted MLA Works Cited page with hanging indents
The Activity Students trace the scholarly conversation by chasing citations both backward (to a source's influences) and forward (to its impact). Using library…