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This resource introduces students to rubrics for evaluating information, including SCARAB, CRAAP, and Reuters Source Guide. Furthermore, it provides a framework of questions to ask about a piece of information under consideration.
Posted on July 27, 2017
Contributor: Todd Heldt
Resource Type(s): Blog Post, Learning Object, Rubric
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Research as Inquiry
This exercise asks students to respond to two videos, sharing with their classmates what feelings and ideas the images and music evoke in them. The first video is an ExxonMobil commercial and the other is a humorous critique of advertising stock footage. Be warned that the critique does contain one mild swear word.
Posted on July 13, 2017
Contributor: Todd Heldt
Resource Type(s): Learning Object
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Has Value
This libguide will help students distinguoish between primary, secondary, and tertiary sources. It includes examples and links to other libraries that provide clear instruction on the matter.
Posted on July 11, 2017
Contributor: Todd Heldt
Resource Type(s): Blog Post, Learning Object
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Scholarship as Conversation, Searching as Strategic Exploration
This learning object is a visual rubric that students can use to evaluate materials they have found online including news, scholarly sources, and web content. It can be used as a handout or online image. A link to the Google Drawings version is also available if you'd like to remix this material with your own colors and branding or make edits. Choose File>Make a Copy to create your own editable version. This learning object is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.
Posted on June 28, 2017
Contributor: Laura Costello
Resource Type(s): Learning Object
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Searching as Strategic Exploration
This reading provides a broad overview of the topic of "fake news" and discusses the inherent difficulty of "fixing" the problem.
Posted on June 28, 2017
Contributor: Todd Heldt
Resource Type(s): Blog Post, Learning Object
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value
This handout lists different ways that information may be incorrectly or unethically presented to audiences and offers suggestions for correctly using information.
Posted on June 28, 2017
Contributor: Todd Heldt
Resource Type(s): Learning Object
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual
This exercise gives students a model for approaching a research task, beginning with general information and ending with more in-depth sources. Discussion can focus on research as inquiry, research as strategic exploration, and the context and construction of authority. Students are required to cite their sources using both MLA and APA.
Posted on June 27, 2017
Contributor: Todd Heldt
Resource Type(s): Assignment Prompt
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration
This lesson is intended as a single session within a major’s research methods course. Rather than using a shorter “scholarly vs. non-scholarly” comparison worksheet, this activity asks students to work in groups to systematically examine a scholarly article in depth, identify and evaluate its various components visually and in writing, and then compare it to a non-scholarly article on the same topic. Groups then report back to the entire class. Discussion is guided so as to touch on the processes by which sources are created, what these methods say about their authority, and to consider...
Posted on June 19, 2017
Contributor: Krista Bowers Sharpe
Resource Type(s): Activity, Lesson Plan, Worksheet
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process
This handout provides a crosswalk between the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education and the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. Librarians using this handout are prompted to describe their past instruction and service experiences that are related to each frame for the purposes of sparking ideas for programming and learning activities related to the Framework. The handout is designed to ease the transition from using the Standards to embracing the Framework in instruction and programming. The FIU Information Litearcy Framework combines...
Posted on June 9, 2017
Contributor: Ava Brillat
Resource Type(s): Instruction Program Material
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Scholarship as Conversation, Framework as a Whole
The assignment prompt and description, Exploring Expertise, is attached. It is a writing prompt for a short assignment. The prompt can be adapted to fit different non-writing performance tasks, however, including discussion or in-class individual/ small group activities. Students are provided a scenario wherein they must research the names of experts quoted in different online news articles (topic: prescription drug abuse). They must show that they have researched the "expert." Learning Outcome - Explore a source of information in order to determine the validity and credibility...
Posted on June 8, 2017
Contributor: Cristy Moran
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assignment Prompt
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual