Scholarly character sheet / Feuille de personnage du jeune chercheur
Missionner les étudiants surmotivés sur des objectifs connexes / Self-driven side-quests with minimum mentoring
Foutaisomètre / Bullshit-o-meter
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ZotLog: Inspiring students to adopt structured methods in Zotero
Missing Information Has Value: Climate Change and the EPA website
Environmental science students critically analyzed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) website and its treatment of climate change during the Trump, Obama, and Bush presidencies. This library “warm-up” activity was designed to raise awareness of data fragility and the long-term accessibility of government websites. As future science professionals, it’s important to think about how this impacts scientists and their work. Students were introduced to several tools including: The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, End of Term Archive, and Data Refuge.
What is this thing? Koosh balls and search terms
Fake News: Fight Back
A one-shot or seminar class on fake news tied to source evaluation. Examination of the factors at play in the creation of misinformation; insight into how to select sources; tools and strategies for evalutating content of stories, authors, and news outlets.
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Where Should I Search? It Depends!
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"They Say / I Say" : The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing with Readings
Teaches students the rhetorical moves found in persuasive writing across all disciplines. The authors focus on the central rhetorical move that gives the book its title: how to begin with what others have said ("they say") in order to set up one's own argument ("I say").
Contemplative Practices in Higher Education: Powerful Methods to Transform Teaching and Learning
Written by Barbezat and Bush, this book discusses how contemplative pedagogy is more than a trendy new teaching technique. It is a way for instructors to empower students to integrate their own experience into the theoretical material they are being taught in order to deepen their understanding; help students to develop sophisticated problem-solving skills; support students' sense of connection to and compassion for others; and engender inquiries into students' most profound questions.
The Craft of Research
A practical guide to how to think through the process of researching a project.
Design for How People Learn
Julie Dirksen's book focuses on a very practical approach to designing learning, drawing upon what we know about how our brain works, and then applying it.
Understanding by Design
This book, written by Wiggins and McTighe, explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning.
Fake News, Lies, and Propaganda: How to Sort Fact from Fiction
The Information Spectrum
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Subject-Specific ICT Literacy
This website provides several subject-specific guides to ICT literacy resources (bibliographies, websites, articles, learning activity ideas) to help faculty incorporate ICT literacy into their curriculum. Each subject guide can be accessed as an independent website. “ICT proficiency is the ability to use digital technology, communication tools, and/or networks appropriately to solve information problems in order to function in an information society.
Access, Power, & Privilege
This activity is designed to support teaching at the intersections of scholarly communication and information literacy. The choose-your-own scenario activity, designed in LibWizard, can be used in a flipped classroom setting or in a traditional classroom. The choose-your-own scenario activity is inspired by and adapts questions from: Hare, S. & Evanson, C. (2018). Information privilege outreach for undergraduate students. College and Research Libraries.
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The Embedded Librarian's Cookbook
Ideas for embedding library instruction into courses. Includes a section for online learning.
The Library Instruction Cookbook
Collects ideas for interactive information literacy lessons.