Into the Driver's Seat

Back in September we were approached by iSchool Professor Rachel Ivy Clarke and Director of the B.S. in Information Management and Technology program director Deb Nosky with a challenge:

How do you teach information and data literacy to a group of high school girls interested in STEM fields?

… by making it fun, of course!

Given the idea to create an escape room by Deb, five of us library science students banded together (myself, Kara Conley, Kayla Del Biondo, Kim Hoffman, and Nicole Potter) to develop an It Girls workshop that addressed three main areas: information literacy and identifying fake resources, smart searching, and data literacy.

What transpired was a truly memorable experience for a group of LIS students with limited prior knowledge on instruction.

Via Elizabeth E Charles