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Information Literacy: School & university synergy. James Henri UPH Session 7 Associate Professor University of Hong Kong. Easy Answer: pretty face. Develop a K->PhD continuum BUT will anyone care? (Woks & Ovens). More Complex Answer: More than a pretty face.
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Information Literacy: School & university synergy James Henri UPH Session 7 Associate Professor University of Hong Kong
Easy Answer: pretty face • Develop a K->PhD continuum BUT will anyone care? (Woks & Ovens)
More Complex Answer: More than a pretty face • Change the focus of libraries in both sectors • Collections & services -> Customer • Help the customer -> Empower the customer (informing skills &attitudes)
More Complex Answer • Change the focus of libraries in both sectors • Customer differentiation: • Students • Teachers • Administrators
Most Complex Answer • Work to change the culture in both sectors • This means the focus is placed on the teachers via institutional expectations
Factors • Linkages between teaching & research • Shift in measures of successful teaching • (Teacher – Student comfort issues) • Shift towards teaching teams
Factors • Shift away from photocopy learning • Change the reward system • Concentrate on measures that demonstrate LEARNING
Factors • Report LEARNING • Report evidence of student understanding
Factors: New thinking • Think about education for a sustainable future. • Would this be a new curriculum or a way of thinking about existing curriculum? • A new lens is being used to understand old issues • The criteria for understanding are expanded
Factors: IL • Think about education for a authentic learning • Would this be a new curriculum or a way of thinking about existing curriculum? • A new lens is being used to understand old issues • The criteria for understanding are expanded
New ways of thinking • It’s a way of thinking about measuring the impact of INFORMATION on the LEARNER AND the LEARNER on INFORMATION • What does your school, your university, think about information?
Factors • Shift criteria for entry to university away from a product focus back to an examination of the lerner
Librarians • Work to influence information and learning policies • Establish knowledge communities within and between organizations
Librarians • Influence library educators to shift foci from: • Products to clients • Information to information literacy
Librarians • Influence educators to shift foci from: • Products to clients • Information to information literacy
Culture Get to know what each is doing: Talk, meet, visit
Go Global: iasl-online.org Join IASL ……. • Talk to Hanna about that!