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This is a visual resource you can use to show students how to start research and the steps they should follow along the way. This is applicable to all discplines. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at samkennedy@…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Scholarship as Conversation, Searching as Strategic Exploration, Framework as a Whole
Contributor: Samantha Kennedy
Resource Type(s): Learning Object
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Developed for the University of Connecticut's "Research Now!" online curriculum. This research log is designed as a general-level tool for any class with a research component, and to be modified for specific classes.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Creation as Process, Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Donovan Reinwald
Resource Type(s): Worksheet
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This chart is the result of a partnership between campus Writing Coordinator, First Year Seminar Coordinator, and myself (Information Literacy Coordinator) to create a customizable assignment structure for our first year seminar class. It…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Framework as a Whole
Contributor: Jennifer Hasse
Resource Type(s): Instruction Program Material
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Comme une fiche-synthèse à remettre à la fin d'un atelier sur l'évaluation des sources. Encore mieux : dans l'atelier, insérez volontairement une erreur et en début d'atelier demandez aux étudiants de la repérer. À la fin de l'atelier, remettez la…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value
Contributor: Pascal Martinolli
Resource Type(s): Assessment Material, Worksheet
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Comment envoyer une minorité d'étudiants surmotivés sur des objectifs pédagogiques intégrés et connexes dont le parcours est structuré ?1) Faire une courte introduction engageante (15min.) 2) Identifier la minorité surmotivée et leur distribuer un…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value, Scholarship as Conversation
Contributor: Pascal Martinolli
Resource Type(s): Assignment Prompt, Blog Post, Learning Object, Worksheet
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Une feuille d'autoévaluation pour suivre les apprentissages en compétences informationnelles acquises sur le moyen ou le long terme. Elle est ludifiée avec des éléments de mesure de soi, de badge et d'identité de jeune chercheur.A scholarly…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Framework as a Whole
Contributor: Pascal Martinolli
Resource Type(s): Assessment Material, Instruction Program Material, Learning Outcomes List, Lesson Plan, Syllabus
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A Star Wars themed look at the Authority is Constructed and Contextual frame, originally used for a staff training event.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual
Contributor: Amanda Ziegler
Resource Type(s): Professional Development Material
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The purpose of this activity is to inspire students to adopt structured methods when they explore and retrieve information. It is based on lab notebooking methods and on managing and documenting the flow of references in Zotero, a reference…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Pascal Martinolli
Resource Type(s): Learning Object
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This template gives space to outline an Information Literacy session, allowing a department to create a more cohesive program, or a single librarian to maintain an organized sense of their own sessions.This single page template gives space for…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Scholarship as Conversation, Searching as Strategic Exploration, Framework as a Whole
Contributor: Hanna Primeau
Resource Type(s): Assessment Material, Assignment Prompt, Curriculum Map, Instruction Program Material, Lesson Plan, Other
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In this activity, students think metacognitively as they search to work out strategies for navigating the search process. In the process, they use Google Docs to collaboratively produce a Search Tips sheet which the whole class can refer back…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Searching as Strategic Exploration, Framework as a Whole
Contributor: Heather Beirne
Resource Type(s): Activity, Lesson Plan, Worksheet
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Paper discussing a proposal for an information fluency initiative at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Scholarship as Conversation, Searching as Strategic Exploration, Framework as a Whole
Contributor: Greg Hardin
Resource Type(s): Publication, White Paper, Other
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University of North Texas Libraries' Library Literacy Escape Room Student Learning Outcomes as tied to ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education and ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.Student…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration, Framework as a Whole
Contributor: Greg Hardin
Resource Type(s): Learning Outcomes List
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Need to add an active learning exercise in your info lit workshop? Consider designing an escape room where students work in teams and compete against other while self-teaching how to conduct research.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry
Contributor: Ray Pun
Resource Type(s): Activity
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This is a lively small-group activity suitable for intro-level classes in one or two-shot sessions, but easily adaptable for use with high schoolers. The goal of the activity is to demystify information evaluation and get students to generate their…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual
Contributor: Claire Lobdell
Resource Type(s): Activity, Learning Object
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The following activity is meant to demonstrate the concepts of authorship and authority to first year writing students. Students will use their prior knowledge and everyday experiences with subpar information to draw parallels between evaluating…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual
Contributor: Heather Beirne
Resource Type(s): Activity, Lesson Plan
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This document lists the outcomes, performance indicators, and dispositions developed for the Threshold Achievement Test for Information Literacy (TATIL). This test has four modules inspired by the six frames of the Framework: Evaluating Process…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Scholarship as Conversation, Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Carolyn Radcliff
Resource Type(s): Learning Outcomes List
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A guide to helping student know how to use (or not to use!) the different kinds of information they may find.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Creation as Process, Scholarship as Conversation
Contributor: Todd Heldt
Resource Type(s): Assignment Prompt, Blog Post, Learning Object
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This is an activity we use in our Freshman-level writing class information literacy instruction one-shots. The activity presents four online resources and asks students to use the "Evaluating Online Sources" rubric to evaluate their assigned…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual
Contributor: Laura Costello
Resource Type(s): Lesson Plan
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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…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Has Value
Contributor: Todd Heldt
Resource Type(s): Learning Object
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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.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Scholarship as Conversation, Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Todd Heldt
Resource Type(s): Blog Post, Learning Object
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Because most research tasks are complex, they require more than one search strategy. Additionally, such tasks require students to organize and synthesize the results of those searchers into one cohesive document. This handout intends to…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Creation as Process, Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Todd Heldt
Resource Type(s): Blog Post, Learning Object
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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…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Laura Costello
Resource Type(s): Learning Object
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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…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Todd Heldt
Resource Type(s): Assignment Prompt
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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…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process
Contributor: Krista Bowers Sharpe
Resource Type(s): Activity, Lesson Plan, Worksheet
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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-…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual
Contributor: Cristy Moran
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assignment Prompt