Monday, December 3, 2012

Thing 18: Teaching information literacy

The session in week 11 (4th November) has a session from three of the librarians at Sheffield University: Lyn Parker, Vicky Grant, and Maria Mawson. They will each talk about teaching information literacy. There is a section on Information Literacy on the Sheffield University website here: http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/infolit/index


Note that if this is a major interest for you, then the module Educational Informatics will be very relevant next semester.

There are a huge number of articles and resources about teaching information literacy, for those that are interested in this topic.  A few examples are:

- This site, which has material from a project about a "New Curriculum" for Information Literacy: http://newcurriculum.wordpress.com/

- A "toolkit" developed by the London-based Clinical Librarians and Information Skills Trainers http://www.londonlinks.nhs.uk/groups/clinical-librarians-information-skills-trainers-group/trainers-toolkit

- Cardiff University's Handbook for Information Literacy Teaching http://www.cf.ac.uk/insrv/educationandtraining/infolit/hilt/index.html

- Wilson, C. et al. (2011) Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Teachers. Paris: UNESCO. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001929/192971e.pdf

- A number of the presentations in the 2012 LILAC (information literacy) conference: http://lilacconference.com/WP/past-conferences/lilac-2012/

- The Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online Database http://www.ala.org/apps/primo/public/search2.cfm

- One of my own articles: Webber, S., Boon, S. and Johnston, B. (2006) British academics from different disciplines: comparing their conceptions of pedagogy for information literacy. In : Actes des 5èmes Rencontres Formist: Lyon: 2005. Lyon: ENSSIB. http://dis.shef.ac.uk/sheila/webber-formist.pdf