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Embedding Information Literacy through critical skills and a new curriculum
“LILAC Annual Conference,Swansea University, April 10-12, 2017
Lorna DoddSenior Librarian, Maynooth University, [email protected], Tel: 01 708 6447, @LornaDodd
Information Literacy
Problem Solving
Independent Learning
Critical Thinking
Analysis
Reflection
Communication Skills
Understand academic standards
Ethical Responsibility
Critical Skills in the new Curriculum
Maynooth University Graduate Attributes
“…graduates are expected to be… capable of gathering and critiquing information from a variety of sources”(Maynooth University, 2014)
Deep Knowledge &
Critical intellectual
skills
Autonomous and
responsible learners
Breadth of perspective
Skills for life and work
A Maynooth Education
• Mapping & evaluating the information landscape
• Managing & presenting information
• Managing the transition
• Understanding ethical & social dimensions of information
• Researching within the disciplines
Deep Knowledge &
Critical intellectual
skills
Autonomous and
responsible learners
Breadth of perspective
Skills for life and work
Information Literacy Framework for ‘A Maynooth Education’
Weeks 1-2: “learning to learn” includes basics of library
Weeks 3-4: “information literacy” assessing, finding sources and lots of other things
Weeks 5-8: “essay writing” small Wikipedia assignment embedded
Week 9: “introduction to quantitative thinking” (basic excel, correlation, etc)
Week 10 to 12: “public speaking”
Semester 1
Semester 2
White Paper Assignment-Integrating discipline knowledge &
critical skills -Using topics such as homelessness
drug liberalization, commuting, cyber security, addiction
Poster Presentation-Capstone for Critical Skills Year
-Research, contextualize & demonstrate the practice of a
Critical Skill developed this year
-Demonstrate knowledge of a frame and how the practices embedded in this frame can be applied in practice
Before Assignment: Review the ACRL frames with the students
After Assignment: Students identify which ‘Frames’ were applicable and write about how the exercise developed both “knowledge practices” and “knowledge dispositions”
Critical Skills Tutors deliver content and mark assignments…….
If information Literacy is truly embedded and in context…..
….Then so should its delivery…..
Librarians train the tutors but don’t deliver content……..
Image: http://disney-sheet-music.com/let-it-go-lyrics/
If Information literacy is to be truly embedded we need to Let it Go!
“I’m trying to constantly embed and reinforce information literacy in the exercises… [it] is found throughout”Dr Brian McKenzie, Critical Skills Coordinator
Critical Skills has had a seismic impact leading us to ….. review our approach to IL delivery
…Opening up possibilities in other parts of the curriculum
…And revising our organisational structures
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