140 likes | 152 Views
This article discusses how LibGuides videos and screencasting technologies can be used to promote digital wisdom in information literacy instruction. It explores the benefits of these technologies in accommodating different learning styles and allowing librarians to model digital wisdom. The article also emphasizes the importance of educators recognizing the need to teach digital wisdom to prepare students for the future.
E N D
LibGuides, Videos, and Screencasting: Technologies to Enhance and Promote Digital Wisdom in Information Literacy Instruction Rafia Mirza Jody Bailey Reference/Instruction Librarians University of Texas at Arlington May 7, 2011
StianEikeland, http://www.flickr.com/photos/stianeikeland/4192102919/
StianEikeland, http://www.flickr.com/photos/stianeikeland/3696386615/
KristianStokholm, http://www.sxc.hu/profile/krilm “The information literate student evaluates information and its sources critically and incorporates selected information into his or her knowledge base and value system.” (ACRL IL standard 3)
“Educators are digitally wise when they recognize this imperative [to teach digital wisdom] and prepare the children in their care for the future . . . by letting students learn by using new technologies, putting themselves in the role of guides, context providers, and quality controllers.” (Prensky, 2009, “Being Digitally Wise,” para. 2) • Three examples for today: LibGuides, Video Editing, and Screencasting • Synchronous/asynchronous • F2F or online • Accommodate variety learning styles • Allow librarians to model digital wisdom
Sources • Association of College and Research Libraries. (2000). Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency.cfm • Babbage, C. (2006). Charles Babbage 1. In F. R. Shapiro (Ed.), Yale book of quotations (p. 37). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. • Blanchard, S. F. J. (2011). Net generation: Social media and its link to interdisciplinarity. In B. Sriraman & V. Freiman, Interdisciplinarity for the 21st century: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Mathematics and Its Connections to Arts and Sciences, Moncton 2009 (pp. 355–370). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. • Comparison of screencasting software. (2011). Wikipedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_screencasting_software • Head, A. J., & Eisenberg, M. B. (2010). How today’s college students use Wikipedia for course-related research. First Monday, 15(3). Retrieved from http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2830/2476 • Prensky, M. (2001). Digital natives, digital immigrants: Part 1. On the Horizon, 9(5), 1, 3–6. Retrieved from http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=oth • Prensky, M. (2009). H. sapiens digital: From digital immigrants and digital natives to digital wisdom. Innovate 5(3). Retrieved from http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=705 • Rowlands, I., Nicholas, D., Williams, P., Huntington, P., Fieldhouse, M., et al. (2008). The Google generation: The information behaviour of the researcher of the future. Aslib Proceedings, 60(4), 290–310. doi: 10.1108/00012530810887953