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CANCELLED Collaborative Faculty and Librarian Instructional Strategies to Strengthen Adult Information Literacy and Critical Thinking Skills
Type of Presentation
Roundtable
Session Abstract
This session will focus on examples of and the value of instructional strategies faculty and librarians can use to help adult students develop information literacy and critical thinking skills
Target Audience
Information literacy includes the ability to access and evaluate information. Accessing and evaluating information is the foundation for making informed decisions and it is a necessary part of the critical thinking process. Educators who work with adults in community agencies, in public libraries, in academic libraries and within classrooms will gain useful information for helping adult learners acquire these skills needed for success in classrooms and in making important decisions in all aspects of their lives.
Learning Outcomes
Attendees will leave the session with the following: a definition of information literacy; a number of specific ideas for implementing an instructional collaboration with a librarian that results in adult students acquiring strong information literacy skills; an understanding of the relationship between information literacy and intellectual capacity; an awareness of the importance placed by regional accreditation agencies on information literacy; an understanding of the factors that work against students not developing strong information literacy skills, and an understanding of why the need exists for faculty and librarians to work together in helping adult students acquire information literacy critical thinking skills.
Session Description
Success as students, parents, and informed citizens requires adult learners to be proficient in retrieving and evaluating information from print and online sources. Often students do not have this capability because there is a miscalibration between their perceptions and their actual ability to access and evaluate data. Students who are made aware of their capabilities and given practice in developing these skills through class assignments become informed information evaluators and stronger critical thinkers.
Adult students who have little time to engage in academic support services can benefit from a strategy in which faculty allow students to use class time to meet with a librarian and work on information retrieval and evaluation skills. Librarians are information retrieval experts who help students gain practice in using literacy skills. Ultimately there is an institutional benefit from this collaboration because an accreditation mandate is addressed through this collaboration.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
Wednesday November 6
Primary Presenter
Sandra Seay, East Carolina University
Work Title
Associate Professor