1. Transforming Pedagogy & Curriculum with Information Literacy
LSTA: Librarian as Instructional Leader
July 14 & 15, 2010
Transforming Pedagogy & Curriculum with Information Literacy

2. Quick LSTA Grant Overview
Precollege Information Literacy Research (PILR)
Technology in instruction
Ongoing Mini-Grants for IL and assessment
IL for the “Rising Junior”
Leadership in instruction
Collaboration!!

3. PILR: Research Question
Does information literacy contribute to overall learning and transition for pre-college students?
Phase 1
Collect data and identify methods for integrating IL into pre-college programs
Phase 2
Seek evidence to support the hypothesis that IL instruction makes a difference in overall learning and transition for pre- college students

4. Emerging Technology and IL Teaching
“exploring ways to harness emerging technology and sound pedagogy to create sustainable support for information literacy and e-Learning… how we can connect directly with students and what support we can provide for faculty as our partners in information literacy instruction.”

5. Workshop Outcomes
Discuss how shifting information paradigms impact information literacy instruction
Identify strategies and plans to improve student learning and/or build partnerships with discipline faculty
Explore available tools that support IL instruction and library services
Share experiences with technologies that support information literacy instruction

6. Keeping track…
golden ideas

7. Welcoming… Anne-Marie Deitering Oregon State University
Nicholas Schiller
Washington State University, Vancouver

8. Information Literacy Plans
Articulate what you do and why.

9. Information Literacy Plan
Purpose/goals
Learning outcomes
Modes/models for instruction
How do you know they work (or don’t work)?
Current top priorities

10. ACRL: Best Practices Mission Collaboration Goals & Objectives Pedagogy
Mission
Collaboration
Goals & Objectives
Pedagogy
Planning
Staffing
Admin & Institutional Support
Outreach
Assessment/Evaluation
Articulation with Curriculum

11. Linking to the Information Literacy Plan
Projects
Activities
Objectives
Mission & Goals

12. 1. Fast forward
What problems do your students have learning to be information literate?
Communication – ability to read, skim, spell, use grammar
Attachment to natural language – entire question
Awareness of library resources
Need preparation as learners – how to instill passion for learning – IL is more than finding an answer – need to be invested in learning process – persistence and patience
Instructors aren’t always comfortable with IL and may not know how to use some of the tools
Wiki for students – create a nicer way for them to engage creatively with the resources – students need to be excited about it and understand it – research needs to be fun & collaborative
Values of the academy are different from those of the real world
They don’t know what they don’t know – they think they are already good at research
They need to know the why as well as the how
Students lack the spark of intellectual curiosity – we need to meet them where their passions are
How does real life research compare with what we ask students to do?
Is the information we ask them to use appropriate to their level, need, etc. Are faculty and librarians working together to address this?
Lack basic skills, such as using an index – some faculty assume students got IL somewhere else
Basic problems: lack $ for computers, software, books; lack time,
ESL – language or cultural
Limitations of our tools – databases aren’t all FT and students think they should be
Students can’t distinguish between different kinds of information
Don’t know how to sort through a list of results
Confuse IL with technology literacy
Can’t identify information needs –
Need more time for research
Assignment design – hobbled by the assignment or asked to use resources that don’t match the task
Visual your fully articulated plan - think about what would be there.

13. Continued

14. Impact Effort Impact Effort Analyzing Options Impact Effort
Review those ideas and consider this analysis
Impact Effort
Impact Effort

15. 2 Golden Ideas Think & Write Share & Discuss
Review your notes for themes & ideas.
Share & Discuss
Which 2-3 ideas could be used to solve IL problems that students face?

16. 3 Explore an idea Think & Write Share & Discuss
Use the project template to begin to develop a project idea in depth
Share & Discuss
Describe the project to your group & get feedback

18. Thursday Wrap - Up Share project ideas & plans (solicit partners?)
Share and post training models on the wiki – keep materials generic – share story boards
Work with IRIS/Kitty to add video etc. (sally)
Web site where we’ve found instructional components – explore using/sharing Delicious for this purpose (linda)
Use/promote social networking to generate knowledge/research – e.g., facebook, twitter, cancer.org,
Tegrity (lecture capture software) – statewide contract
How to better use elluminate esp for IL
Usability testing for libguides
Develop/find textbook alternatives
Un-Workshop
Open textbooks/open course initiative – collaborate! Don’t recreate.
Next year
PILR
Immersion – advanced/custom/new
Rising Junior workshop
Questions, issues, epiphanies
Where to now?

19. Fitting it all in…
Discuss: what do you need to discard? Borrow? Delegate? Collaborate?