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The Hidden Layer Workshop introduces key generative AI (genAI) concepts through a privacy lens. Participants probe the possibilities and limitations of genAI while considering implications for intellectual privacy, intellectual property, data sovereignty, and human agency. An original PROMPT Design Framework and worksheet guide participants through the iterative process of prompting generative AI to optimize output by specifying Persona, Requirements, Organization, Medium, Purpose, and Tone. In the centerpiece activity, participants engage in a hidden layer simulation to develop a conceptual...
Posted on December 20, 2023
Contributor: Sarah Hartman-Caverly
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assessment Material, Bibliography, Instruction Program Material, Learning Object, Learning Outcomes List, Lesson Plan, Slide Deck
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
This resource consists of three prompts for students to reflect on their research process at the beginning, the midpoint, and the end of a research assignment. The reflection responses can be used by librarians and instructors to identify where students are struggling in the research process and use that information to improve their teaching.
Posted on May 3, 2023
Contributor: Kayleen Jones
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assessment Material, Assignment Prompt
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Creation as Process, Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration
Using social media examples, helping students understand how scholarship is not done in isolation but shared and a conversation. This is a lesson plan for a single class session. Included is a Learning Objectives doc for behind the scenes use, Questions Reading Activity for sharing with students, and Assessment for capturing data.
Posted on April 19, 2023
Contributor: Emily Bufford
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assessment Material, Learning Outcomes List, Lesson Plan, Worksheet
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Scholarship as Conversation
This sex-positive privacy literacy workshop engages participants in exploring how sex tech impacts intimate privacy and intimate relationships. Workshop content is contextualized with the theoretical frameworks of artificial intimacies (Brooks) and consentful tech (The Consentful Tech Project) and the concept of intimate privacy (Citron) and presented through a privacy literacy lens. Participants will identify artificial intimacies in order to assess real-world examples and their impact upon intimate privacy; evaluate the privacy of digital bodies under conditions of data promiscuity using a...
Posted on February 14, 2023
Contributor: Sarah Hartman-Caverly
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assessment Material, Bibliography, Instruction Program Material, Learning Object, Learning Outcomes List, Lesson Plan, Slide Deck, Worksheet
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
This workshop engages participants in exploring corporate data collection, personal profiling, deceptive design, and data brokerage practices. Workshop content is contextualized with the theoretical frameworks of panoptic sort (Gandy), surveillance capitalism (Zuboff), and the four regulators (Lessig) and presented through a privacy and business ethics lens. Participants will learn how companies make money from data collection practices; explore how interface design can influence our choices and behaviors; and discuss business ethics regarding privacy and big data.The workshop is designed for...
Posted on November 8, 2022
Contributor: Sarah Hartman-Caverly
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assessment Material, Bibliography, Instruction Program Material, Learning Object, Learning Outcomes List, Lesson Plan, Slide Deck
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value
Sample Excel sheet for recording multiple variables and characteristics when assessing student Annotated Bibliography assignments.
Posted on June 15, 2022
Contributor: Sarah Hood
Resource Type(s): Assessment Material
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Has Value, Scholarship as Conversation
Ancillary materials for the chapter "Aligning Business IL with Startup Thinking: A series of open workshops" in Teaching Business Information Literacy, including a workshop assessment questionnaire and a student reflection document.
Posted on April 8, 2022
Contributor: Carey Toane
Resource Type(s): Assessment Material
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry
This workshop engages academic librarians and higher education professionals in considering the implications of Dx (digital transformation) for privacy, especially intellectual privacy, in higher education. The session is designed to reveal how student, faculty, and staff data and metadata are collected, along with the potential implications of such data collection. Participants assess how this data is used in order to make informed, intentional choices to safeguard student and employee privacy. The session includes a guided close-reading activity to critically examine educational technology...
Posted on August 25, 2021
Contributor: Sarah Hartman-Caverly
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assessment Material, Learning Object, Learning Outcomes List, Lesson Plan, Practitioner Reflection, Professional Development Material, Slide Deck, Worksheet
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry
This workshop introduces intellectual privacy and related concepts for academic librarians and higher education professionals. The session is designed to explore the interrelationship between intellectual privacy, surveillance, the chilling effect, open inquiry, and free expression. In lieu of a prescriptive approach, participants analyze readings, case studies, and the Social Cooling infographic to consider how surveillance within the academy and society at-large can impact inquiry and expression. Privacy, the chilling effect, FERPA, and the implications of data capture and surveillance in...
Posted on August 25, 2021
Contributor: Sarah Hartman-Caverly
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assessment Material, Learning Object, Learning Outcomes List, Lesson Plan, Practitioner Reflection, Professional Development Material, Slide Deck
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry
This workshop delivers an action-oriented introduction to personal data privacy for academic librarians and higher education professionals. The session is designed to reveal the professional and educational technology systems in place to collect and analyze online behavioral data, and to unveil the real-world consequences of online profiling in contexts like academic integrity surveillance, student surveillance, and public health (COVID-19). In lieu of a prescriptive approach, participants analyze case studies to observe how online behaviors impact real-world opportunities and reflect on the...
Posted on August 25, 2021
Contributor: Sarah Hartman-Caverly
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assessment Material, Learning Object, Learning Outcomes List, Lesson Plan, Professional Development Material, Slide Deck, Worksheet
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value