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Information literacy as learner agencyDr Emma CoonanResearch Skills & Development Librarian, Cambridge University Library
Agency in Education Conference, 12 June 2012Education Faculty, University of Cambridge
Arcadia Programme
Rethinking the role of the research library in a digital age
Project remit
Develop a new, revolutionary curriculum for information literacy in a digital age
Information literacy ...
“Being able to use different ways of finding information and being able to
judge whether the information is trustworthy or accurate is vital: it opens up choices, empowers us and can give
us more confidence.”
(Welsh Information Literacy Project, 2011)
Information literacy ...
Learners can “extend their investigations, become more self-
directed, and assume greater control over their own learning”
(ACRL, 2000)
Information literacy ...
“empowers people in all walks of life to seek, evaluate, use and create
information effectively to achieve their personal, social, occupational and
educational goals.”
(UNESCO, 2005)
Project aims
Understand the needs of undergraduates entering HE over the coming 5 years
Map the current landscape of information literacy
Develop practical curriculum and supporting resources
Milestones and deadlines
Literature review/catch up - 6-9th May and ongoing
Best practice review - 6th-13th May and ongoing
Expert consultation: pilot - 13th May
Expert consultation: interviews - 16th-27th May
First draft outline - 8th June
Plan next stage and revise
Expert consultation workshop: during week of 13th-20th June
Final curriculum, evidence toolkit, framework review and literature review by 8th July
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Analysing the data: qualitative categories
What should be taught: curriculum content
How it should be taught: pedagogic implications
Format and structure of the curriculum
Timing of the interventions
Teaching style and the method of delivery
Role of audits and assessment
Marketing and promotion, key drivers and barriers to implementation
Considerations around technology
Considerations around technology
http://www.public-domain-image.com
Why aren’t we doing this already?
Why aren’t we doing this already?
... And what are we doing instead?
“ ... the main gap I am finding is with regards to critical and holistic thinking. There seems to be a teach‐to‐test culture which focuses on circumscribing knowledge into manageable boxes ... ”
(ANCIL Expert Consultation Report, 2011)
“ ... that is not the world we inhabit .... we draw these boxes to simplify the immense complexity we face, but I think that increasingly we are, in the information society, having to interact directly with this complexity and additional strategies ... are needed.”
(ANCIL Expert Consultation Report, 2011)
A New Curriculum for Information Literacy
• Curriculum
• Expert consultation report
• Theoretical background report
• Concept diagram
• Information literacy definition
• Resource wiki
• Video
• Lesson planning tool
• Institutional audit tools
• Book
http://newcurriculum.wordpress.com
A New Curriculum for Information Literacy
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