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Disasters, natural or manmade, disrupt society and can expose people to public health emergencies. In preparation for impending natural disasters, national agencies, such as the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will situate…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry
Contributor: Laureen Cantwell-Jurkovic
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assignment Prompt, Slide Deck
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This lesson plan introduces students to lateral reading techniques using the SIFT method. Designed and implemented for a political science introduction to international relations course, this can easily be adapted to other media literacy contexts.…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value
Contributor: Ruth Castillo
Resource Type(s): Activity, Lesson Plan
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This infographic guide on the literature review process help researchers decide where to search, how to search, how to organize the search process and increase the productivity, and how evaluate scholarly articles. Altough the Guide is created to…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Creation as Process, Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Grace Liu
Resource Type(s): Research Guide
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Learning activity to guide students in Political Science 101 through locating scholarly sources for an annotated bibliography.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Chelsea Nesvig
Resource Type(s): Learning Object
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In this activity, students work in groups to craft a response to a presidential tweet from an assigned perspective (e.g. right or left leaning news source). In doing so, they are required to find, evaluate, and effectively use information to make a…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process
Contributor: Faith Rusk
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assignment Prompt
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If there were a list of things I absolutely required all my students to understand before leaving my class, the relationship between mass media, politics, and science would be close to the top of the list. But there are a lot of moving parts in…
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: Todd Heldt
Resource Type(s): Blog Post, Learning Object, Research Guide
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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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A discussion and overview of the following ideasWhy we see things differently.Why we don’t like to be wrong.Why it is dangerous to question authority.Where we got the letter A.The morbidity of Puritan children’s books.How culture and community…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Has Value, Scholarship as Conversation, Framework as a Whole
Contributor: Todd Heldt
Resource Type(s): Blog Post, Lesson Plan
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This resource discusses alt right propaganda, gives examples, and posts links to further readings.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Todd Heldt
Resource Type(s): Blog Post, Learning Object, Research Guide
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This exercise offers students a list of curated links that they will use to complete an assigned project on green roofs. Students must evaluate, summarize, annotate, cite, and synthezize the materials in a completed document containing an…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry
Contributor: Todd Heldt
Resource Type(s): Assignment Prompt
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This assignment has students analyzing data presented in graphs, charts and infographics that are pre-selected by librarian and instructor based on how poorly the information is being presented through various outlets.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value, Scholarship as Conversation
Contributor: Spencer Brayton
Resource Type(s): Activity
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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