1 International Guidelines for Information Literacy Workshop Jesús Lau, Ph.D. Director, USBI Veracruz Library, and UV Virtual Library Coordinator Veracruz,

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InternationalGuidelines for

Information Literacy Workshop

Jesús Lau, Ph.D.Director, USBI Veracruz Library, and UV Virtual Library

CoordinatorVeracruz, México

[email protected] / [email protected]: http://bivir.uacj.mx/lau

Institutional: www.uv.mx

World Library and Information Congress:70th IFLA General Conference and Council

Buenos Aires, ArgentinaAugust 25, Wed.,10:45 -12:45

http: // www.ifla.org

J. Lau - InfoLit / UV

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Information

Information

Encapsulated Knowledge

Data Human Experience

Information:Different type of sources, Recording formats, and

delivery media


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Objectives / topics

• Brief introduction to guidelines• Information literacy standards• Group discussion / Audience

feedback• Conclusions


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Information Literacy Concepts

Informationliteracy

Usereducation

Libraryinstruction

InformationFluency

Developmentof information

skills

Bibliographiceducation

Other Information

competencies

Informationskills


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Information Competencies

AccessAccessUseUse

Selecting Examining InterpretingAnalyzingSynthesizingTranslate intoknowledge

EvaluationEvaluation

InternalizingApplyingLearningCreating new ideasNew insightsEthical use

LocateRetrieveIdentifySiftSortSelect


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Use of the guidelinesA framework

Adapt to national and institutional needs

Be flexible in the application of guidelines

Begin or reinforce previous information

literacy work

Do whatever you canwith the resources you have


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Getting Institutional Support

• Your role of building learning partnerships• Personnel, budgets, your institution and

communities involved• Identify your institutional organization style of

working• Administrators may not like or ignore the IL

benefits• Reactions of teachers/ faculty may not be

positive, some may have no interest• Support may come a broad community:

students, teachers/faculty and, administrators


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Librarian Advocacy Role

• Start a collaborative academic scheme with teachers/faculty, other librarians, technology coordinators, administrators, curriculum planners and learning facilitators

• Be prepared for obstacles: human, facilities, and economic resources

• Be persuasive and focus on what you do • Rely on technology to lead your institutional learning

collaboration• Recognize that something has to be done and be

aware that nothing will be perfect• Your goal is to ensure that information literacy is

incorporated into the curriculum• The library should be the center information power


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Learning Theories

Practical problem-solving activityCongnitive developmental stages

Building on prior knowledge

ConditioningReinforcement

Observation learning

Behaviorist view

Teaching techniques

Cognitive psychology

Constructivist


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Constructivist Education

Inquiry learning

(Bruner)

Meaningful

learning

Cooperative learning (Slavin)

Brain-based learning

Student-centered

learning


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Factors: Learning Process

Multiple intelligences(Gardner )

Learning styles (Gardner)

Motivation (Wittrock)


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Thinking and Learning

Bloom´s

Taxonomy

(Bloom)

Metacognition(Blakey and

Spence)

Criticalthinking

(Ennis)

Creative

thinking

(Cave)

Thinking and

learning

Mental

models

(Glynn)


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Assessment of knowledge and skills before instruction is designed. It guides course content and pedagogy

An ongoing process of student feedback, and teaching adjustment

Prescriptive or Diagnostic:Prescriptive or Diagnostic:

Formative:Formative:

Summative:Summative:

Takes place at the end of instruction to evaluate student performance


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VisionActions

Programs

Goalsof

objectivesObjectives

Misionand

Values Costs/Budget

Resources:Human

Economic Facilities

Evaluación

Estrategias

Opportunities y Challenges External environment

Strategic PlanningStrengths and weakness

Internal environment


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Electronic Classroom A Learning Space

New facilities

Other library spaces

Adaptation

Renovation

1. Options


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Space size 2. Standards

Building codes

Lighting/ Darkness

Layout Equipment

Acoustics Location

Furniture

Location - Classroom


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Walls

Colors

Doorways

Windows

Wheelchair-use

Signs

Wiring

Ceilings

3. Building

Building


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Forward facing

Horse-shoe

Double-oval

Desk clusters

Periphery, desk at center

4. Desk Arrangement

V-shaped


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5. Management

Training strategies

Replacement equipment

Policies and procedures

Inventory list

Trouble shooting guide

Maintenance plan


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Tables

6. Furniture

Instructor station

Materials storage

furniture Desks

Furniture


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7. Equipment

Multimediaprojector

Computers

Overheadprojector

Screen

TV set

DVD drives


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Group monitoring

Lectureware 8. Software

Office software Security

virus

Other software

Software

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