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Nessa Vahedian Khezerlou

Adjunct Reference & Instruction Librarian
Joliet Junior College & College of DuPage
smiling white woman with curly hair

Nessa is a librarian at Joliet Junior College (JJC) and the College of DuPage (COD). She holds an MLIS from UW-Madison and an undergraduate degree from UIowa. Her practice focuses on critical pedagogy and constructivist learning, helping students find nuance in complex information landscapes. She empowers students to move from passive consumption to active, skeptical research—proving that critical thinking is pretty lit. I can be reached most easily at my personal email address nessavahedian@gmail.com.

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Resources Contributed

Behind the Chatbot: A Flipped Classroom Exploration of AI Mechanics and Ethics
This flipped classroom activity walks students through the mechanics of generative AI by combining an interactive pre-class AI dialogue with an in-depth workshop on information literacy and critical evaluation. Part 1: Pre-Class Activity (20–40 minutes)Students engage directly with an AI chatbot using a structured prompt that guides them through activities, like a role-reversal exercise where they act as the AI to understand next-word prediction, and information. The conversation covers key…
That's What She Said: Citation Chasing
Learning Objectives By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
  1. Navigate the library discovery tool and Google Scholar to locate articles and books
  2. Perform backward and forward citation chasing to identify related sources
  3. Create a properly formatted MLA Works Cited page with hanging indents
The Activity Students trace the scholarly conversation by chasing citations both backward (to a source's influences) and forward (to its impact). Using library…