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How do students become information literate? That's a question I have asked myself many times. I'm particularly interested in the relationship between cognitive development and information literacy...
Professors are moving away from the lecture approach and running more hands-on learning in class — and they’re using more technology to get it done.
About a month ago I got two separate emails from completely different people asking about what I think high school students should know about information literacy before coming to college. I, uh, procrastinated a bit.
Librarians have a love affair with information. Nothing wrong with that. But when it comes to helping students, how much is too much? Too much information (TMI) causes cognitive overload. Sweller's...
This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Learning Theory, zone of proximal development The area of capabilities that learners can exhibit with support from a teacher., Montessori constructivism, Lave & Wenger...
One of the biggest problems with the one-shot information literacy session is that it tends to treat research as a separate skill from writing. It's not. The research process is really the writing ...
What is 4C/ID? The 4C/ID Model is a four-component system for the instructional design of complex skills. It was developed by van Merrienboer, et al., and can easily be plugged into the ADDIE model...
Library Instruction and Academic Success: A Mixed-Methods Assessment of a Library Instruction Program
What are TPACK skills? And why do librarians need them? TPACK refers to Technological Pedogogical Content Knowledge. A mouthful, I know. To help you understand it better, I'll break it into parts: ...
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Our working memories can hold roughly 5 to 7 chunks of information at any one time. In young adults, it's more like 3 to 5 (Cowan, 2010). Add to that an ever shrinking attention span, thanks to so...
The libraries have appointments devoted to instruction and information literacy, and each year ACRL‟s Institute for Information Literacy Immersion Program trains academic librarians in the development, delivery, assessment, ...
Keepin' it real in Library Land. ... Today, this Ed Tech article, “Colleges Go Proactive with Flipped Classrooms” really got me thinking more about this technique, and how we might apply it to information literacy instruction.
Twenty years ago, a small article by Alison King appeared in the journal College Teaching. It was titled "From Sage on the Stage to Guide on the Side." That article would come to represent the big ...
Many educators are explicitly teaching online research skills, such as how to evaluate a website's credibility, how to use precise keywords, and how to better mine search engines.
College Libraries Transition to High Tech Learning Centers EdTech Magazine: Focus on Higher Education Karl Carter, director of the library's MInDSpace (Media and Instructional Design) media lab, now has the wired and wireless bandwidth he needs to...
Lily, whose family is from Brazil, was struggling a bit to understand the concept of "media messages". Their English Language Learners class had been discussing the idea for several days, but she h...
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