Dr. Sean CordesAssociate Professor, Instruction Services CoordinatorWestern Illinois University

And, Or and Not, Ifs, Ands, or Buts: Framing new literacy learning through process integration.

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A Broad Spectrum of InvestigationMore meaningful ways for finding, filtering and engaging information to meet variety of needs and topics are emerging…

Rich, broad, timely, dynamic

Deep, vetted, built on fundamentals

Specific, focused, validated by peers, innovative, builds case, extendable

Timely, informal, informative, conversational

One in every 40 scholars is on Twitter, on

average tweeting about five times per week,

but the majority of their tweets are unrelated

to their scholarly work.

Priem, J., Costello, K., & Dzuba, T. (2011). 

• Research is iterative• Focus on open, unresolved problems• Problems can be personal or academic• Evidence can be formal or informal• Often includes differing perspectives

across time, groups, and disciplines• Builds on existing knowledge, leads to

greater ability, understanding and skill

RESEARCH AND THE SPIRAL OF INQUIRY

Ask

Investigate

CreateDiscuss

Reflect

Context is (now) king

• [Context]is a key to understanding how students operationalize and prioritize their course-related and everyday life research activities… students consistently referred to “finding context,” in one form or another, as the most laborious, yet requisite, part of the research process (Head & Eisenberg, 2009)

• Nearly all students intentionally make use of a small compass for traversing the ever-widening and complex information landscape they inhabit, whether they are finding information for course work or for use in their daily lives (Head & Eisenberg, 2010)

• A study of 33 graduates in 23 companies found that new workers used traditional college information skills, but workers and employers both felt the need for them to adapt to business research practices, especially working with a variety of sources, including traditional sources and collaborative settings (Head, et al., 2013)

Teaching students to draw distinctions sets the stage for creating new categories, being open to new information, and being aware of different perspectives.

Distinctions reveal that the material is situated in a context and imply that other contexts may be considered.

Ellen Langer, Harvard University

ON THE THRESHOLD

AUTHORITY IS CONTEXTUAL AND CONSTRUCTED

SCHOLARSHIP AS CONVERSATION

Information resources reflect expertise and credibility evaluated based on the information need and the context used. Authority is constructed in that various communities may recognize different types of authority. Information need may help determine level of authority.

Communities of scholars, researchers, or professionals engage in sustained discourse with new insights and discoveries occurring over time as a result of varied perspectives and interpretations.

Migeon, M. (2013). On Not Being Her Doctor. Annals Of Internal Medicine, 159(2), 153-154.

Migeon, M. B. (2013). On not being her doctor. Annals of internal medicine,159(2), 153.

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAdOQCgwi2c

Book Text-Net Smart Ch 1.

Book Illustration

EduWiki

Infotention

http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Infotention

Information Creation as a ProcessInformation is produced to convey a message, shared via a selected delivery method. Researching, creating, revising, and disseminating information vary, and the resulting product reflects these differences.

• capabilities and constraints of information and processes

• assess the fit between process and need• articulate traditional and emerging processes

information perceived differently based on format • implications of information formats contain static

or dynamic information• monitor the value that is placed on types of

information products • transfer knowledge of capabilities and constraints

to new types of information products• choices impact the purposes for use and the

message it conveys

Live Tweet-The PitchThe top three social media sites used in 2014 are 1) Facebook, 2) Twitter, and 3)Linked In. Out of 654,750,000 twitter account users, there is an average 58 million tweets each day. A college student may not realize the impact the content of their social media sites may have on not only their relationships and school work but also their future career opportunities. The Lead Series: What does your social media say about you presentation will explore different social media sites and explain how ones image is portrayed to future employers. This event will discuss how one can make a good first impression socially, for example on Facebook, or professionally on LinkedIn. We believe as a group that this event will benefit us personally and our twitter followers as well. They will indirectly learn to use social media tools for entertainment and businesslike situations in their near future.

Live Tweet-The Exploration

Research as Inquiry

Research is iterative and depends upon asking increasingly complex or new questions whose answers in turn develop additional questions or lines of inquiry in any field.

A starting point

Students today think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors, as a result of being surrounded by new technology (Prensky, 2001).

The actual situation is far from clear. A more measured and disinterested approach is now required to investigate ‘digital natives’ and their implications for education (Bennett, Maton, & Kervin, 2008).

Quest of inquiry and authority is often open, unresolved, critical, personal, professional, social, and strives for meaning and structure

Crime and Punishment

Organizing the Inquiry-MindMap

A Broad Spectrum of InvestigationMore meaningful ways for finding, filtering and engaging information to meet variety of needs and topics are emerging…

Rich, broad, timely, dynamic

Deep, vetted, built on fundamentals

Specific, focused, validated by peers, innovative, builds case, extendable

Timely, informal, informative, conversational

One in every 40 scholars is on Twitter, on

average tweeting about five times per week,

but the majority of their tweets are unrelated

to their scholarly work.

Priem, J., Costello, K., & Dzuba, T. (2011). 

Information Has ValueInformation possesses several dimensions of value, commodity, means of education, means to influence, means of negotiating and understanding the world. Legal and socioeconomic interests influence information.

Markham Nolan-Contextual detective

Found 2 people with that name in two states.

Only rain in one state that day. Florida.

Found YouTube Video of thunderstorm for potential story. Is it credible?

Used Google Maps to verify location by cross referencing clues

Search username with free people search tool

TEDSalon 2012, https://goo.gl/TghUye

Building meaning digital collaboration

To clarify the details, someone posted a link to the live Police Scanner to Facebook!

Citizens reported first and help narrow down the location…

Police provided a warning with their own Facebook post.

From this information, Google maps helped us plot the danger path

The next day the press (briefly) reported the event.

SlideShareLinkedIn

Google NewsTwitter

Searching as Strategic ExplorationSearching for information is nonlinear and iterative, requiring evaluation of a range of information sources and mental flexibility to pursue alternate avenues.

Believe in disbelief

Really, Seriously…..

• When building web sites students had challenges using both traditional and web based search tools, especially social networks (Delicious, YouTube, Flickr) (Cordes, 2013).

• Comparing the library catalog, database, and search engine students felt the database more useful for performing academic tasks than the catalog or Google, but found Google easier to use overall (Cordes, 2014).

• In a collaborative decision task, teams using a discussion process that supported member interdependence made better decisions and had more positive feelings about the work climate and procedures (Cordes, 2014).

Sea of search…Smooth Sailing?

5 things I want my kids (and colleagues) to know

• Build future skills on the knowledge of the past• There is often more than one way to skin a cat• The truth can come in many colors• Skeptical is safe (if there is such a thing)• All information has value, depending on what your

buying

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