This activity/assignment was designed for a first year composition course in collaboration with an English/Writing instructor. It could be used in an information literacy credit course, First Year Experience course, or in another discipline-specific context. The purpose of the lesson is to lay the foundation for students to be able to read scholarly work more effectively and critically.
Assignments
Posted on November 15, 2017
Author: Sarah Ralston
Discipline: Anthropology, Biology, Communication Studies, Library and Information Science, Multidisciplinary, Psychology, Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing, Sociology
Information Literacy Concepts: Evaluates (ACRL 3, SCONUL 5, ANZIL 3, ANCIL 4), Uses Information (ACRL 4, SCONUL 7, ANZIL 5, ANCIL 8&9), Scholarship as Conversation (Frame 5)
Posted on October 3, 2017
Author: Kristen Bailey
Made to be an in class activity or a library resource requested by professors for courses. The first page goes with the instruction portion of a class. 'What is a primary source? What is a secondary source? What is a tertiary source?' It takes them through example types of sources, particularly concerned with history courses. The second and third pages require evaluation of a student's primary and secondary sources.
Discipline: History, Library and Information Science
Information Literacy Concepts: Authority is Constructed / Contextual (Frame 1), Information Creation as Process (Frame 2)
Posted on September 22, 2017
Author: Susan Archambault
Lesson plan for a 1-hour introductory Communication Studies theory class. Emphasis is on getting students to use the appropriate tool for their information need while considering indicators of authority. Collection of exercises requiring students to do the following: 1) look up background information on a communication theory; 2) chase down further readings; 3) find a scholarly article that applies a communication theory using the ComAbstracts database.
Discipline: Communication Studies
Information Literacy Concepts: Finds Information (ACRL 2, SCONUL 3&4, ANZIL 2&4, ANCIL 5), Evaluates (ACRL 3, SCONUL 5, ANZIL 3, ANCIL 4), Ethics (ACRL 5, SCONUL 6, ANZIL 6, ANCIL 7), Authority is Constructed / Contextual (Frame 1), Information Has Value (Frame 3), Searching as Strategic Exploration (Frame 6)
Adaptations: 1
Posted on September 15, 2017
Author: Ellen Carey
UPDATE: PLEASE USE SIFT & PICK INSTEAD!
Discipline: Multidisciplinary
Information Literacy Concepts: Authority is Constructed / Contextual (Frame 1), Information Creation as Process (Frame 2), Information Has Value (Frame 3)
Posted on September 8, 2017
Author: Tara Franks
For this assignment, students will spend time as a critical media observer - namely, their own uses of media in a 72 hour period.
Discipline: Communication Studies
Information Literacy Concepts: Evaluates (ACRL 3, SCONUL 5, ANZIL 3, ANCIL 4)
Posted on September 8, 2017
Author: Tara Franks
In this activity, students will work on maintaining eye contact with their audience while giving an impromptu speech. The goal is to stop (or reduce) students' tendency to look at their visual aid during speech presentations.
Discipline: Communication Studies
Information Literacy Concepts: Authority is Constructed / Contextual (Frame 1)
Posted on August 30, 2017
Author: Lucinda Rush
Students often depend on citation generators provided by databases, library discovery tools, and websites when tasked with correctly formatting their references. However, these generators often make mistakes that students don’t notice. This activity will help students to look critically at the citations provided by citation generators and to find the mistakes. This will both help students learn the citation style of their discipline and to look more critically at seemingly quick fixes during the research process.
Discipline: Multidisciplinary
Information Literacy Concepts: Ethics (ACRL 5, SCONUL 6, ANZIL 6, ANCIL 7), Information Has Value (Frame 3)
Posted on August 9, 2017
Author: Desirae Zingarelli-Sweet
This assignment is designed to encourage students in introductory-level religious studies classes to check the assumptions they bring to the subject matter and to develop their critical inquiry skills in this area through close examination of primary text passages. The primary textual sources used may be contemporary or historical, depending on the course context.
Discipline: Multidisciplinary, Theology
Posted on August 8, 2017
Author: Lua Gregory
Collaborators: Shana Higgins
This small group zine-making activity can be adapted for any discipline.
Discipline: Multidisciplinary
Information Literacy Concepts: Uses Information (ACRL 4, SCONUL 7, ANZIL 5, ANCIL 8&9), Information Has Value (Frame 3)
Posted on July 9, 2017
Author: Susan Archambault
In biology or health classes, assign each student a 'diagnosis'. Have them act as responsible patients by investigating both the diagnosis and the prescribed treatment. Results presented in a two-page paper should cover: a description of the condition and its symptoms; its etiology; its prognosis; the effectiveness of the prescribed treatment, its side effects and contradictions, along with the evidence; and a comparison of the relative effectiveness of alternate treatments.
Discipline: Biology, Health, Multidisciplinary
Information Literacy Concepts: Finds Information (ACRL 2, SCONUL 3&4, ANZIL 2&4, ANCIL 5), Evaluates (ACRL 3, SCONUL 5, ANZIL 3, ANCIL 4)