What are we already doing related to the question?
If we wanted to consider starting this initiative or expanding what we are already doing, what do we want to learn about it from our future speakers? What questions do we want to ask during our upcoming speaker series?
Although there has been a lot of discussion about students being "digital natives", I really think that the skills they bring to the table are very different from what they need to in order to do research. I do think there is a distinction, too, between information (or digital) literacy and information fluency, and if we are aiming to tackle this topic, we might want to consider which one is our stated goal.
ReplyDeleteStudents are required to demonstrate some information literacy through class research projects. I would like to see more emphasis put on this and on locating a variety of sources in the freshman level courses such as freshman orientation. Perhaps an information scavenger hunt could be created to distribute to classes which requires them to locate pieces of information from a particular type of resource (book of quotes, atlas, dictionary, old newspaper microform, website, etc) and have them properly cite the source for each.
ReplyDeletesome of the Comp 1 classes have already incorporated a library scavenger hunt into their curriculum. I don't know how well it teaches or encourages or demonstrates information literacy but it at least forces the freshmen to come into the library for more than just coffee and a laptop.
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