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This activity assignment involves using Generative AI platforms, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Pi.ai, to assist in brainstorming and refining research questions. The task is structured into three main sections:Narrowing a Topic:…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Research as Inquiry
Contributor: Sarah Hood
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assignment Prompt, Learning Object, Worksheet
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Beginning college students often make assumptions that scholarly sources are inherently bias-free. Students may also hold the belief that if they find a source through a library database, it is automatically a useful and neutral viewpoint on a topic…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process
Contributor: Lauren Wallis
Resource Type(s): Activity, Lesson Plan
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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’…
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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An open access MOOC in French to bonify the information literacy skills of university students (with Moodle).
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: Pascal Martinolli
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assessment Material, Learning Object, Tutorial
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This lesson is designed to orient teacher education students to the library spaces and resources that support the development of multiple literacies by using a gamified tour through a series of stations throughout the library. Exploration stations…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Searching as Strategic Exploration, Framework as a Whole
Contributor: Wendy Traas
Resource Type(s): Activity, Lesson Plan
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This is a participatory, variable lesson frame ready for you to modify to suit your instruction needs. This lesson and it's variations focuses on encouraging students to see themselves as information creators and part of the scholarly conversation…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Scholarship as Conversation, Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Anaya Jones
Resource Type(s): Activity, Lesson Plan
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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…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Has Value, Scholarship as Conversation
Contributor: ACRL Association of College & Research Libraries
Resource Type(s): Activity, Publication
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Evaluating a political news story presented in social media.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value
Contributor: Spencer Brayton
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assessment Material, Assignment Prompt, Lesson Plan