bringing information literacy into the social sphere: a case study using social software to teach...
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Presentation at LITA National Forum, Cincinnati, OH. Co-presented by Susan Sharpless Smith and Erik Mitchell, WFUTRANSCRIPT
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Bringing Information Literacy into the Social Sphere
A Case Study Using Social Software to Teach
Information Literacy at WFU
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Plan for Today
• Overview• History/Background• Theoretical Framework• Case Study• Findings• Future Plans
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Who is Wake Forest University?
• Private, co-ed liberal arts institution
• Located in Winston-Salem, NC (since 1956)
• Total enrollment: 6700• FT faculty: 487 / Adjunct
faculty: 267
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History of IL @ WFU
• One-credit elective class began in 2003 with 9 sections
• 14 classes covered traditional IL topics
• Curriculum template developed for Blackboard
• Increased demand – now 12 classes per semester
• Over 1500 students so far
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What is IL?• A foundational approach to
learning and education?• Skills and competencies related
to information seeking and use?o Contextual skillso Generalized process knowledge
• An dialogue between individuals, social contexts, and technology?
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Models & meta-models
• Popular Modelso ACRL
Know, access, evaluate, use, and ethical/legal
o UNESCO Process, information consumer
o Socio-technical model Communication, connections, interactions
• Meta-modelso Shapiro-Hughes
Tool, resource, social- structural, research, publishing ,emerging tech, critical)
o Sundin Source, behavioral, process,
communication
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Who are our Students & What Do They Know?
• Next generation information seekingo "Why Professor Johnny can’t read"o "Is Google making us stupid?"o The Google generation
• Our philosophical assumptionso They have specific but not generalized
IL skillso Research has changed, format driven
IL is not relevanto Focus on info current issues/context,
use skills to connect conceptso The course should occur in student’s
information space
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Our Emerging Model• Our first classes
o “instructors lacked enthusiasm for the topic”o Tech-centric, but skill based
• EndNote Enters the Pictureo Continues to be “most valued” skill
• Student-Driveno Attempt to leave instructor managed CMS
behindo Student shaped research on Information
Issueso Incorporated theoretical content
• Rapid course developmento Current issueso Shared editing
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Our Current Model
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Technologies Used in ZSR • Google Docs• Clickers• Videos• Skill quizzes• Libguides• Blogs• Endnote• Zotero
• Freemind• Jing• ZSR Library Too
lkit• Flickr• Google Image la
beler• Wikis• Facebook
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facebook Case Study
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CMS Components
• facebook componentso facebook group as our primary locationo The Wiki Project as our course syllabus
& student work areao Discussion boardo facebook applications
• Non facebook componentso ZSR wiki for Freemind presentationso Endnoteo Blackboard for grades
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Class Content Highlights
• Class 6 - Remix Class o Concept: Intellectual property,o Skill: Citation
• Class 7 - Research Management o Concept: Research managemento Skill: Endnote
• Class 8 -Information Organizationo Concept: Indexing impacts discoveryo Skill: Connecting the descriptive act &
complex searching, Google image labeler
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Assessments
• Mix of individual & group worko Define a research questiono Scope statement/background
informationo Find/evaluate/cite information
resourceso Presentation and essay
• Blog posting/class discussion
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Reactions – What did they like?
• Research tools, organization/searching, scholarly vs. popular resources
• EndNote, privacy, evaluation, research process
• Alerts/RSS, overviews, presentations, remix culture
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Reactions – What is IL?
• Emphasis on skillso Resource discovery, working with
electronic formats, citation• Conceptual knowledge
o Direct relationship to skillso Evaluation (90%), information issues
(76%), organization standards (62%)
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Reactions – Tool familiarity
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Pre-course Academic facebook use
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Post-course facebook reactions
• 67% would encourage facebook use in classrooms
• Themeso Familiarity with technologyo Novelty/funo Interface designo Academic vs. social space
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Observations & Next Steps
• Building on overall positive feedback• Problems with free platforms • How are we approaching this fall?
o Moving back into library owned/licensed space
o Keeping distributed CMS modelo facebook as launch point, blog platformo Libguides as syllabuso Wiki as collaborative workspace