Information Literacy and Web 2.053 interesting ways to engage students

Peter GodwinUniversity of BedfordshireJune 2008

Information Literacy and Web 2.053 interesting ways to engage students

What is Information Literacy?How do we cope with the Google

generation?How can Web 2.0 help?

What is Information Literacy?

“Information literacy is the adoption of appropriate information behaviour to identify through whatever channel or medium, information well fitted to information needs, leading to wise and ethical use of information in society.”

(Sheila Webber and Bill Johnston)

SCONUL Seven Pillars framework

SCONUL 7 Pillars

Recognising need for information Distinguishing sources and access Constructing search strategies Locating and accessing Comparing & evaluating Organising, applying and communicating Synthesising and adding new knowledge

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What does it mean to be Information Literate?

PLAN

RECORD

REFLECT

ACT

The research process

CIBER report(2008)

Information behaviour of the researcher of the future.

London: University College London.

CIBER Briefing paper; 9.

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Academic library concept model

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What they need to become

CollaboratorsSynthesizersAdaptors

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“It’s about student learning, stupid!”

ActiveConstructivist Collaborative Intentional

Complex

Contextual

Conversational

Reflective

Web 2.0

RSS feeds Wikis

Blogs Mashups Podcasting Tagging Vodcasting flickr del.icio.us MySpace YouTube Instant messaging

Second Life

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Library 2.0

“Forget about names, labels, because it doesn’t matter. Just use the good stuff to be better at what you do”

(Phil Bradley : Phil Bradley’s weblog)

Reflection

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Visual

Information creation

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Convenience

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Evaluation

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Sharing

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Active learning

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Ways forward

Change their habits rather than just develop their skills

We’re there to help improve the quality of the question

Librarians go wild

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