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This lesson plan from Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts, edited by Patricia Bravender, Hazel McClure, and Gayle Schaub and contributed by Robert Farrell, provides students with a practical analogy for scholarly inquiry using an example they are all familiar with, crime scene investigation.
Posted on April 26, 2017
Contributor: ACRL Association of College & Research Libraries
Resource Type(s): Lesson Plan, Publication
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Research as Inquiry
This lesson plan from Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts, edited by Patricia Bravender, Hazel McClure, and Gayle Schaub and contributed by Andrea Baer, introduces students to the idea that scholarship is a conversation.
Posted on April 25, 2017
Contributor: ACRL Association of College & Research Libraries
Resource Type(s): Lesson Plan, Publication
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Scholarship as Conversation
This chapter from Classroom Assessment Techniques for Librarians, by Melissa Bowles-Terry and Cassandra Kvenild, uses three assessment techniques to help librarians assess students’ skill in synthesis and creative thinking.
Posted on April 25, 2017
Contributor: ACRL Association of College & Research Libraries
Resource Type(s): Assessment Material, Publication
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Framework as a Whole
This chapter from the Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook, edited by Nicole Pagowsky and Kelly McElroy and written by Rachel Gammons, demonstrates a critical assessment activity that offers an opportunity to reflect on the lived reality of learners and make purposeful and informed adjustments to teaching.
Posted on April 25, 2017
Contributor: ACRL Association of College & Research Libraries
Resource Type(s): Assessment Material, Publication
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Framework as a Whole
This chapter from Rewired: Research-Writing Partnerships within the Frameworks focuses on the formalized and explicit instructor-librarian collaboration in a specialized section of technical writing, and how that partnership initiated curricular and pedagogical changes that brought the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education and The Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing to the forefront of course design.
Posted on April 25, 2017
Contributor: ACRL Association of College & Research Libraries
Resource Type(s): Publication
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Framework as a Whole
This recipe from The First-Year Experience Cookbook, edited by Raymond Pun and Meggan Houlihan and written by Amanda Foster, details a class that asks students to explore the advanced search capabilities of Google and introduces them to free online research tools used by successful researchers..
Posted on April 25, 2017
Contributor: ACRL Association of College & Research Libraries
Resource Type(s): Activity, Publication
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Searching as Strategic Exploration
This recipe from The First-Year Experience Cookbook, edited by Raymond Pun and Meggan Houlihan and written by Jenny Yap and Sonia Robles, helps introduce first-year English and ESL composition students to the differences between scholarly and popular sources.
Posted on April 25, 2017
Contributor: ACRL Association of College & Research Libraries
Resource Type(s): Activity, Publication
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Has Value, Scholarship as Conversation
This recipe from The First-Year Experience Cookbook, edited by Raymond Pun and Meggan Houlihan and written by Kyrille Goldbeck DeBose, is a set of lesson plans originally designed for a First-Year Experience (FYE) course taught to familiarize students with several concepts across the Framework and create a foundational knowledge base to be built upon throughout their academic careers.
Posted on April 25, 2017
Contributor: ACRL Association of College & Research Libraries
Resource Type(s): Activity, Publication
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Framework as a Whole
This recipe from The First-Year Experience Cookbook, edited by Raymond Pun and Meggan Houlihan and written by Nick Ferreira and Mackenzie Salisbury, is an exercise for students who understand the basic concepts of research in a college library, but need a quick refresher on college-level research and practical knowledge of their new library’s logistics.
Posted on April 25, 2017
Contributor: ACRL Association of College & Research Libraries
Resource Type(s): Activity, Publication
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value, Scholarship as Conversation, Searching as Strategic Exploration
This recipe from The First-Year Experience Cookbook, edited by Raymond Pun and Meggan Houlihan and written by Joy Oehlers, demonstrates a fun group activity that uses a familiar tool for ESOL students to make sense of their library collections and basic services.
Posted on April 25, 2017
Contributor: ACRL Association of College & Research Libraries
Resource Type(s): Activity, Publication
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Creation as Process, Searching as Strategic Exploration