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This guide was designed to provide easy access to the documents and information that will help you integrate information literacy into your DCI or DCII course. It's modeled somewhat like the kind of class guide your librarian can design for your students to help them navigate library resources. This guide includes tabs for:
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Information literacy (IL) defined
Information literacy is a complex and multi-layered skill set centered on accessing, analyzing, evaluating, synthesizing and producing knowledge. It is developmental (i.e., it cannot be taught all at once, there must be time for skills to be introduced, applied, reinforced and extended) and it is best learned and understood when taught in conjunction with the companion skills of critical thinking, reading, writing and production.
Infomation Literacy has been extensively defined by the Association of Research Libraries (ACRL):
ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education
Research on IL and first-year students
The First-Year Experience and Academic Libraries: A Select, Annotated Bibliography
Information literacy and its
relationship to cognitive development and reflective judgment - 2008, Jackson, R., - includes a handy comparison of the two dominant models of cognitive development: Perry's and King & Kitchener's, mapping IL learning objectives to both.
Skimming the surface - 2011, Inside Higher Ed. article outlining the initial findings of The Citation Project, a study analyzing nearly 2,000 student citations from first year composition courses at a range of institutions
Truth be told: What today’s college students say about conducting research in the digital age - 2010, Project Information Literacy Progress Report - Head, A.J. and Eisenberg, M.
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