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This is an outline of the session "AI Literacy at Lunchtime: Research Tools," part of the TTUL's AI Literacy workshop series. This is a discussion based series that allows for critical examination of AI tools, generative tools, and their applications in research.Session is meant to be approximately one hour. Our sessions are conducted in hybrid form (online through Zoom and in-person). These tools can offer ways to simplify workflows, look for connections between papers and researchers, and offer different perspectives that we might not usually see with regards to traditional literature...
Posted on March 10, 2024
Contributor: Erin Burns
Resource Type(s): Activity, Learning Object, Learning Outcomes List, Lesson Plan
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration, Framework as a Whole
Texas Tech University Library’s AI Literacy workshop series developed weekly for spring 2024. Included here are materials related to part 2. This resource can be used as a general starting point for evaluating generative AI.Additionally, the workshop utilizes Padlet to facilitate discussion for active learning. Sessions can be held online, in-person, or hybrid. These sessions are also for broad appeal, and included faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students in attendance. The Padlets for this session included an evaluative Jeopardy-like game where participants could rate...
Posted on February 23, 2024
Contributor: Erin Burns
Resource Type(s): Activity, Lesson Plan
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration
The worksheet, activity, slides, and library instruction session outline for this assignment are a methodology for integrating information literacy and library research into testimonio writing in a first-year undergraduate Introduction to Higher Education (IHE) course in the College of Education at California State University, Los Angeles. In the testimonio, students reflect upon and write about their educational experiences while integrating academic sources into their work.
Posted on December 1, 2023
Contributor: Kimberly Y. Franklin
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assignment Prompt, Lesson Plan, Slide Deck, Worksheet
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Scholarship as Conversation, Searching as Strategic Exploration
Graphic organizer that takes students through the 5 W's (Who What Where When Why). Includes prompt questions.
Posted on October 20, 2023
Contributor: Sarah Hood
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assignment Prompt, Learning Object, Worksheet
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Research as Inquiry
A group of four librarians from varied disciplinary backgrounds came together to examine issues of artificial intelligence and large language models. We are of the opinion that Pandora's box has been opened. Students will use ChatGPT, so it is important that we engage our students to promote a deeper learning and awareness of this technology and its limitations. As a result, we participated in a semester-long ChatGPT workshop sponsored by our institution's writing center. We explored various aspects of generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs), particularly where it intersects with...
Posted on July 19, 2023
Contributor: Stefanie Hilles
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assignment Prompt, Learning Object, Lesson Plan
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Research as Inquiry, Scholarship as Conversation, Searching as Strategic Exploration
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
The goal of this activity is to help students develop a broader understanding of the purpose of academic research assignments, by helping to identify some of the common misconceptions that they might have about research assignments. This could also be used as a low-stakes activity or assignment at the beginning of a research project to help clarify expectations.
Posted on November 8, 2022
Contributor: Jane Hammons
Resource Type(s): Activity
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Research as Inquiry
The goal of this activity is to help students start to develop an understanding of research as an ongoing process of inquiry, rather than a straightforward process of compiling information on a topic. Students develop initial definitions of “research as inquiry,” review and discuss resources related to the concept, revise their definitions, and reflect on how the concept relates to their research practices.
Posted on November 8, 2022
Contributor: Jane Hammons
Resource Type(s): Activity
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Research as Inquiry
This is a fun, hands-on activity that can help with brainstorming a topic and/or reserach question. Can also function as an ice-breaker! The results can be informative...and also sometimes entertaining!On the slip of paper (attachment), students write their name and a Population that they'd like to focus on. then they hand it off to another student, who fills in a Place. They then hand it off to a third student, who fills in a Problem. Finally, the slip is returned to its original owner who must formulate a research question based on those three pieces of information.
Posted on June 17, 2022
Contributor: Sarah Hood
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assignment Prompt, Worksheet
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Research as Inquiry
This Worksheet is based on Mike Caulfield’s S.I.F.T. Method. Students will first need to have a familiarity with that. I highly recommend the “S.I.F.T. For Teachers” video playlist on his YouTube channel and/or his website.This activity would probably take most of a class period. Could also be done online via a Discussion.
Posted on June 17, 2022
Contributor: Sarah Hood
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration