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The goal of this assignment is to help students develop a better understanding of the need to provide citations. Moving beyond a focus on citations as giving appropriate credit to an author, this activity is intended to help students appreciate the…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value, Scholarship as Conversation
Contributor: Jane Hammons
Resource Type(s): Activity
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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…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: Sarah Hartman-Caverly
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assessment Material, Bibliography, Instruction Program Material, Learning Object, Learning Outcomes List, Lesson Plan, Slide Deck
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A visual representation of the publishing process and how access is provided that includes what free labor is contributed to the process and how publishing companies make astronomical profits from freely given materials
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: John LaDue
Resource Type(s): Learning Object, Other
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Easier access to research data is changing the research landscape. Investigate the data available for your research topic through the library’s catalog and open-access sources.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Scholarship as Conversation, Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Kaypounyers Maye
Resource Type(s): Assignment Prompt, Lesson Plan
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How do you detmerine whether your research has had an impact? This lesson plan covers journal and author metrics such as Journal Impact Factors, H-index, citation counts, and altmetrics. After a mini-lecture of the definitions of these metrics and…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: Tessa Withorn
Resource Type(s): Activity
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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…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: Sarah Hartman-Caverly
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assessment Material, Bibliography, Instruction Program Material, Learning Object, Learning Outcomes List, Lesson Plan, Slide Deck, Worksheet
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Goal: The primary goal of the activity or assignment is for students to develop an increased understanding of the peer review process and how it is connected to the authority or credibility of different information sources.…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value
Contributor: Jane Hammons
Resource Type(s): Activity
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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…
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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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…
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,…
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…
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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In this course, you will learn how to install Zotero software on your own devices, import citations via the Zotero web connector, and insert those ready-made citations directly into your papers.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: UMKC Research Essentials
Resource Type(s): Tutorial
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In this lesson, you will learn the value of information and how to avoid plagiarism in your own work.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: UMKC Research Essentials
Resource Type(s): Tutorial
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Keeping track of all your sources can be frustrating and overwhelming—but with a little bit of organization, managing sources can be a breeze!In this activity, you will learn how to auto-generate your bibliography in virtually any citation…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: UCLA WIRE
Resource Type(s): Activity, Learning Object, Tutorial
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The goal of this activity is to help students start to develop a broader understanding of the value of information and their rights and responsibilities as information consumers and creators. Students complete a simple true/false activity that is…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: Jane Hammons
Resource Type(s): Activity, Lesson Plan
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This activity was designed to help students understand some of the costs associated with creating and accessing information. Students will consider the cost of a "package" of information resources and participate in a discussion focused on the value…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: Jane Hammons
Resource Type(s): Activity, Lesson Plan
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The Penn State Berks Privacy Workshop Series focuses on privacy issues for students in the past, present, and future. The Privacy Workshop spotlights privacy practices and concerns in the current moment; Digital Leadership explores future…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: Alexandria Chisholm
Resource Type(s): Activity, Instruction Program Material, Learning Object, Lesson Plan, Research Guide, Slide Deck
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This interactive online workshop introduces and defines plagiarism and discusses when and how to cite, quote, paraphrase, and summarize.Learning outcomes:Learners will be able to:Identify strategies for avoiding plagiarismAccurately…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: UCLA WIRE
Resource Type(s): Activity, Learning Object
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This is a lesson plan for FYE business IL session. The plan incorporated a role play active learning activity and framework concept information has value.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: Grace Liu
Resource Type(s): Activity, Instruction Program Material, Learning Outcomes List, Lesson Plan, Other
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The Penn State Berks Privacy Workshop Series focuses on privacy issues for students in the past, present, and future. The Privacy Workshop spotlights privacy practices and concerns in the current moment; Digital Leadership…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: Alexandria Chisholm
Resource Type(s): Activity, Instruction Program Material, Learning Object, Lesson Plan, Research Guide, Slide Deck, Worksheet
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Privacy Literacy Toolkit for K-20 librarians and educators to facilitate creation of learning experiences on privacy related topics. Toolkit includes teaching materials, how-tos, case studies, current awareness resources, along with…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: Alexandria Chisholm
Resource Type(s): Bibliography, Instruction Program Material, Learning Object, Professional Development Material, Other
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The Penn State Berks Privacy Workshop Series focuses on privacy issues for students in the past, present, and future. The Privacy Workshop spotlights privacy practices and concerns in the current moment; Digital Leadership…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: Alexandria Chisholm
Resource Type(s): Activity, Instruction Program Material, Learning Object, Lesson Plan, Research Guide, Slide Deck, Worksheet
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Deciding who to vote for can be hard. On top of that, finding information about local elections can sometimes be difficult, as can be figuring out if you agree with a candidate on an issue that you don’t know too much about. This activity engages…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Faith Rusk
Resource Type(s): Activity, Worksheet
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This is designed as a 75 minute lesson plan. It isn’t tied to specific course content, but can be tailored to a particular course and scaled to shorter or longer class sessions. It is designed as more of a theoretical, reflective introduction to…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: Claire Lobdell
Resource Type(s): Lesson Plan
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The credit-bearing classroom provides librarians with expanded opportunities to connect with students as teachers, mentors, and advocates. Both the content and approach of one-shot sessions are often driven by faculty requests for resource-based…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: Rachel Scott
Resource Type(s): Assignment Prompt, Practitioner Reflection, Publication