The purpose of this activity is to inspire students to adopt structured methods when they explore and retrieve information. It is based on lab notebooking methods and on managing and documenting the flow of references in Zotero, a reference management software.
Assignments
Posted on July 24, 2018
Author: Pascal Martinolli
Discipline: Accounting, Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Classics, Communication Studies, Computer Science, Dance, Economics, Education, Engineering, English, Environmental Studies, Ethnic Studies, Film and TV, Geology, Health, History, Information Management, Law, Liberal Studies, Library and Information Science, Linguistics, Mathematics, Multidisciplinary, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing, Social Work, Sociology, Theater Arts, Theology, Urban Studies, Women's Studies
Information Literacy Concepts: Uses Information (ACRL 4, SCONUL 7, ANZIL 5, ANCIL 8&9), Research as Inquiry (Frame 4), Searching as Strategic Exploration (Frame 6)
Posted on March 22, 2018
Author: Nicole Branch
Collaborators: Daniel Ransom
This lesson was co-developed by Daniel Ransom and Nicole Branch. This is an intensive APA workshop that could be broken into parts. It covers both APA citation and formatting, with a protest theme. The workshop was conducted as a stand-alone, outside of class workshop at Holy Names University in 2014 and 2015. Though Occupy is now dated, the theme of protest could be adapted to something more current. We didn't think it would be possible to make APA citation engaging, but this lesson did just that. It was especially popular with nursing and education students.
Discipline: Education, Psychology
Information Literacy Concepts: Information Has Value (Frame 3)
Posted on December 19, 2017
Author: Kirsten Hansen
Collaborators: Lydia Bello
During this activity, students work in small groups to explore assigned databases and then share back what they learn in a Google Doc projected at the front of the classroom.
Discipline: Anthropology, Art, Biology, Education, English, Environmental Studies, Multidisciplinary, Sociology
Information Literacy Concepts: Research as Inquiry (Frame 4), Searching as Strategic Exploration (Frame 6)
Posted on January 30, 2017
Author: Josh Rose
Through a reading assignment, a brief lecture, and small group discussion, students training to be high school teachers learn about Information Literacy (IL) and Critical Information Literacy, and consider how they can apply these concepts within their disciplines and in their teaching practice. This short, 55-minute session was taught for a course called "Foundations in Secondary Education", offered through the Single Subject (Secondary) Teaching Credential program at Saint Mary's College of California's Kalmanovitz School of Education.
Discipline: Education
Posted on January 26, 2017
Author: Margaret Brown-Salazar
Created by M. Brown-Salazar Saint Mary's College of CA This lesson was developed to have graduate level students explore social justice issues in information found on the internet. It is based on Dr. Safiya Noble's work: Algorithms of Oppression. Simplified, we asked students to consider that when we seek information, we need to examine the perspective/privilege of the voices/sources of information and identify/understand whose voices are represented and whose voices are missing and how that impacts/influences our understanding.
Discipline: Education, Liberal Studies, Library and Information Science, Multidisciplinary, Psychology
Posted on January 5, 2017
Author: Laura Massa
In small groups students give a presentation examining how the popular media reports scientific findings.
Discipline: Biology, Business, Chemistry, Communication Studies, Economics, Education, Engineering, English, Environmental Studies, Ethnic Studies, Film and TV, Geology, Liberal Studies, Library and Information Science, Linguistics, Multidisciplinary, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Urban Studies, Women's Studies
Posted on November 17, 2016
Author: Candice Benjes-Small
Collaborators: Alyssa Archer
As people rely more and more on social media to get their news, the filter bubble becomes increasingly problematic. In this workshop, students learn how to evaluate whether a news site is reliable. This group activity takes about 30 minutes and can be used for many different audiences by adjusting the examples used.
Discipline: Business, Communication Studies, Economics, Education, Environmental Studies, Ethnic Studies, Health, History, Liberal Studies, Library and Information Science, Multidisciplinary, Political Science, Psychology, Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing, Sociology, Urban Studies, Women's Studies
Information Literacy Concepts: Evaluates (ACRL 3, SCONUL 5, ANZIL 3, ANCIL 4)
Posted on August 25, 2016
Author: Carolyn Caffrey
This group activity can be used in a variety of disciplines and contexts. Pass the Problem aims to have students provide feedback to other students on database and keyword selection. By having students critique each other it works to build critical self-reflection during the research process (it's also pretty fun!).
Discipline: Art, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Classics, Communication Studies, Dance, Education, English, Environmental Studies, Ethnic Studies, Film and TV, Health, History, Multidisciplinary, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, Theater Arts, Theology, Urban Studies, Women's Studies
Information Literacy Concepts: Defines Information Need (ACRL 1, SCONUL 1&2, ANZIL 1), Research as Inquiry (Frame 4), Searching as Strategic Exploration (Frame 6)
Adaptations: 13
Posted on April 18, 2016
Author: Nicole Branch
Students will learn to identify where they might find school and community data; practice accessing this data; and create a school community data profile. Students will also be introduced to some of the problems of bias when looking at school and community data. For part one, student will find data for the high school they attended and the community they grew up in. In part two, students will collect the same data for a school in the community they will be working in over the course of the quarter.
Information Literacy Concepts: Authority is Constructed / Contextual (Frame 1), Information Has Value (Frame 3), Searching as Strategic Exploration (Frame 6)
Posted on March 2, 2016
Author: Elizabeth Galoozis
This annotated bibliography assignment has five different versions for five different groups of disciplines: arts, humanities, social analysis (social sciences), life and physical sciences, and quantitative reasoning. Each is meant to give students a way to identify and explore the key types of scholarly sources in those disciplinary categories; for example, to understand what is meant by a primary source in each category.
Discipline: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, Biology, Business, Communication Studies, Computer Science, Dance, Economics, Education, Engineering, English, Environmental Studies, Ethnic Studies, Film and TV, Geology, History, Linguistics, Mathematics, Multidisciplinary, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Theater Arts, Urban Studies, Women's 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), Scholarship as Conversation (Frame 5)
Adaptations: 1