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These materials accompany the book chapter “Data Visualization: Visualizing Decisions” from Teaching Business Information Literacy published by ACRL Press.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Research as Inquiry
Contributor: Chelsea Barrett
Resource Type(s): Instruction Program Material
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These materials accompany the book chapter 27 “Thinking Outside the "Box": Conducting Supply Chain Procurement Research” from Business Information Literacy published by ACRL Press.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Katharine Macy
Resource Type(s): Worksheet
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This Google Form can be used for you to track information about your instruction in one-shot and embedded information literacy sessions. Reflecting upon your current instruction is a critical step in becoming a more effective information literacy instructor. This form will allow you to track class information (e.g. professor, number of students, date of instruction, length of instruction), general feedback on the session (e.g. what worked well, what could have gone better), lesson planning details (e.g. which ACRL Frames were incorporated, what tools were used for assessment, when assessment was implemented), and findings from your assessment. You can generate a Google Sheet to view all your entries, returning to past entries and reflections when you teach similar content or classes in the future to remember what aspects worked well and what you might want to change to have a more successful session.To use this form, create a copy to your Google Drive, which will allow you to tweak, add, or remove questions so that you can tailor the form for your own reflections on your teaching practice.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Framework as a Whole
Contributor: Alicia G. Vaandering
Resource Type(s): Practitioner Reflection
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These are the slides for the learning activity in the book chapter, "Teaching Undergraduates to Collate and Evaluate News Sources with Altmetrics" from the book Teaching About Fake News: Lesson Plans for Different Disciplines and Audiences. These slides include goals, definitions of original research, the scholarly conversation, altmetrics; and an in-class activity.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Research as Inquiry, Scholarship as Conversation
Contributor: Rachel Miles
Resource Type(s): Activity, Slide Deck
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The purpose of this activity is to recognize how a quote can be taken out of context in subtle (and overt) ways. The goal is to locate a quote within a news article and trace it through multiple layers of context to discover how journalists’ interpretations of quotes impact our understanding of actual events and news.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value
Contributor: Elizabeth Kamper
Resource Type(s): Activity
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Powerpoint to accompany social media influencer/business information literacy activity, exploring roles and responsibilities of consumers and content creators, debates regarding influencer marketing tactics and misleading advertisements, and ways to distinguish sponsored content. Created by Mia Wells and Laureen Cantwell. Accompanies chapter "Bad Influence: Disinformation and Ethical Considerations of Influencer Marketing Campaigns on Social Media Platforms," from the book Teaching About Fake News: Lesson Plans for Different Disciplines and Audiences (Eds.: Benjes-Small, C. M., Wittig, C., & Oberlies, M. K.; 2021; ACRL).
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Scholarship as Conversation
Contributor: Laureen Cantwell-Jurkovic
Resource Type(s): Activity, Instruction Program Material
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Powerpoint to accompany science information literacy activity following a news article back to a research article. Created by Megan Carlton and Lea Leininger. Accompanies chapter How the scientific method invalidates ‘fake news.’ From the book Teaching About Fake News: Lesson Plans for Different Disciplines and Audiences. Benjes-Small, C. M., Wittig, C., & Oberlies, M. K. (Eds.). (2021): https://uncg.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/1262768350
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Scholarship as Conversation
Contributor: Lea Leininger
Resource Type(s): Activity, Instruction Program Material
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Many students in higher education, even in graduate school, begin as outsiders when they encounter disciplines related to their courses. Their professors are the experts. They are not. The terminology, literature, and even cultures of these disciplines form barriers to participation. Disciplinary enculturation is the process by which students become active participants within disciplines rather than outsiders trying to look over disciplinary walls.Disciplines need to be seen as "communities of practice"* rather than as repositories of knowledge. As such, they have an agreed upon knowledge base (with variants), a culture (with variants), and a methodology (with variants). Three terms label these elements of communities of practice: epistemology, metanarrative, and method. Disciplinary analysis is a first step for students entering into disciplinary communities as participants. Beginning students must ask key questions that compel a discipline to explain itself, thus providing a path to enculturation.This is a guide to the theory and practice of disciplinary enculturation
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Scholarship as Conversation
Contributor: William Badke
Resource Type(s): Professional Development Material
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This worksheet accompanies the science information literacy activity "A new study says..." by Megan Carlton and Lea Leininger. The worksheet was created by Megan Carlton using Canva and exported as a pdf.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Scholarship as Conversation
Contributor: Lea Leininger
Resource Type(s): Worksheet
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By the end of the #ForYou: Algorithms & the Attention Economy workshop, students will be able to:describe recommender system algorithms in order to examine how they shape individuals' online experiences through personalizationanalyze their online behaviors and subsequent ad profiles in order to reflect on how they influence how individuals encounter, perceive, & evaluate information, leading to echo chambers & political polarizationassess how their data is used to personalize their online experience in order to build algorithmic awareness & make informed, intentional choices about their information consumption**This is a standalone workshop but also scaffolds from the Penn State Berks Privacy Workshop which gives students some foundational understanding of personal data collection practices.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: Alexandria Chisholm
Resource Type(s): Activity, Instruction Program Material, Learning Object, Learning Outcomes List, Lesson Plan, Research Guide, Slide Deck, Worksheet
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In 2019, University of Minnesota Duluth librarians developed Framework-inspired essential questions to define our pedagogical agenda. Wiggins and McTighe define essential questions as “provocative questions that foster inquiry, understanding, and transfer of learning.” These questions reveal our information literacy priorities, inform instructional design, and facilitate ongoing engagement with key ideas.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Framework as a Whole
Contributor: Kim Pittman
Resource Type(s): Instruction Program Material, Learning Outcomes List
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Slides from a lesson plan focused on developing curiosity and formulating questions. Students complete a curiosity self-assessment developed by librarians at Oregon State University, discuss what curiosity looks like in their academic and personal lives, and practice developing questions about essays they've read in class using the Question Formulation Technique. The lesson was inspired by this article: Rempel, Hannah Gascho, and Anne-Marie Deitering. "Sparking-curiosity—Librarians’ role in encouraging exploration." In the Library with the Lead Pipe (2017).
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Research as Inquiry
Contributor: Kim Pittman
Resource Type(s): Activity, Lesson Plan, Slide Deck
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This is a Power Point presentation that goes with a chapter on how to address fake science news through the use of framing.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value, Framework as a Whole
Contributor: Ekaterina Bogomoletc
Resource Type(s): Slide Deck
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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 and productivity software privacy policies and terms of service. This workshop session scaffolds from the Intellectual Privacy Workshop [Peer/Professional] and Privacy Workshop [Peer/Professional].
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry
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
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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 academic libraries and higher education are considered. Participants collaborate to develop considerations and principles for data use in academic libraries and higher education based on these concepts and case studies. This workshop session scaffolds from the Privacy Workshop [Peer/Professional] and is designed for synchronous or asynchronous delivery.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry
Contributor: Sarah Hartman-Caverly
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assessment Material, Learning Object, Learning Outcomes List, Lesson Plan, Practitioner Reflection, Professional Development Material, Slide Deck
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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 benefits and risks of technology use to develop purposeful online behaviors and habits that align with their individual values. Developing knowledge practices regarding privacy and the commodification of personal information and embodying the core library values of privacy and intellectual freedom, the workshop promotes a proactive rather than reactive approach and presents a spectrum of privacy preferences across a range of contexts in order to respect participants’ autonomy and agency in personal technology use. Adapted from the student-facing Privacy Workshop.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: Sarah Hartman-Caverly
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assessment Material, Learning Object, Learning Outcomes List, Lesson Plan, Professional Development Material, Slide Deck, Worksheet
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These slides accompany the book chapter “Revelatory Reading: Understanding, Critiquing and Unveiling Religious News Stories” from Teaching About Fake News published by ACRL.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Scholarship as Conversation
Contributor: Andy Newgren
Resource Type(s): Slide Deck
Faculty Conversations: Bringing the Next Level of “Fake News” Library Instruction into the Classroom
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This resource is designed to accompany "Chapter 23: Faculty Conversations: Bringing the Next Level of “Fake News” Library Instruction into the Classroom" from the ACRL book Teaching About Fake News: Lesson Plans for Different Disciplines and Audiences. Description: The librarian will lead the faculty member(s) through a conversation/discussion that will identify and prioritize the critical thinking skills necessary to evaluate fake news in a library instruction session. During the conversation, the librarian will advocate for the librarian’s role as an educator in this kind of instruction.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Framework as a Whole
Contributor: Jo Oehrli
Resource Type(s): Other
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These slides are designed to accompany Chapter 16: "Sound Science or Fake News?: Evaluating and Interpreting Scientific Sources Using the ACRL Framework" by Anna Mary Williford and Charlotte Ford, from the ACRL book Teaching About Fake News: Lesson Plans for Different Disciplines and Audiences.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Scholarship as Conversation
Contributor: Anna Mary Williford
Resource Type(s): Activity, Lesson Plan, Slide Deck
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Use this slidedeck to explore, identify rheotrical trends, and critically analyze and evaluate different examples of conpsiracy theories with students. This activity is part of the Teaching About Fake News volume, published by ALA.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual
Contributor: Sarah Morris
Resource Type(s): Slide Deck
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These slides are designed to accompany the book chapter, "Evaluating Data Visualizations for Misinformation & Disinformation," by Nicole Helregel, within the ACRL book Teaching About Fake News.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process
Contributor: Nicole Helregel
Resource Type(s): Slide Deck
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Academic research articles have a structure and language that is different from our other reading materials such as textbooks. This lesson can help students new to academic research understand these differences and learn strategies for finding information in such articles.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: New Literacies Alliance
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assessment Material, Learning Object, Professional Development Material, Tutorial
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A learning activity PowerPoint about appropriation or re-use of art history images to create memes, and how knowledge about the original artwork in context can provide a deeper understanding of the people and society that created the work.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Research as Inquiry
Contributor: Rebecca Barham
Resource Type(s): Activity, Instruction Program Material, Learning Object, Lesson Plan
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Upon studying the mixed history between photographic documentation and photographic reality, students will create their own meme.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Framework as a Whole
Contributor: Amy Kim
Resource Type(s): Lesson Plan
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PowerPoint that accompanies Chapter 21: Teaching Students to Analyze and Interpret Historical Propaganda by Amy E. Bush, Christine Cheng, University of California, Davis, and Alesia M. McManus, University of California, Davis.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual
Contributor: Christine Cheng
Resource Type(s): Slide Deck