Assignment
You as Knowledge Creator
Short Description:
Students self-reflect on ways in which they do research and create knowledge. This is a discussion topic in an online library research class. My students are mostly adult learners with full-time jobs.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to articulate a situation in their life where they conduct research, create knowledge, and share it with others.
Discipline:
Library and Information ScienceInformation Literacy concepts:
Individual or Group:
Ability Level:
Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated):
A graded discussion in a 1-credit, online, library research class.
Additional Instructor Resources (e.g. in-class activities, worksheets, scaffolding applications, supplemental modules, further readings, etc.):
Potential Pitfalls and Teaching Tips:
It might be nice to have the students read something on metaliteracy, because that is what they are doing here--self-reflecting on research and knowledge creation. But I have gotten as far as that, identifying and giving them a reading.
Suggested Citation:
Miller, Robert. "You as Knowledge Creator." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2019. https://projectcora.org/assignment/you-knowledge-creator.All assignments contributed to this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike United States License