Information Literacy and the Common Core: Collaborative Opportunities

Type of Presentation

Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)

Target Audience

Higher Education

Presenter Information

• Trish Vlastnik, University of Alabama

Copyright

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Location

Room 2010

Proposal

See presentation description.

Short Description

The approaching implementation of the Common Core national curriculum standards promises to create information literate students who are college and career ready by graduation. This presentation explores collaborative opportunities presented by the requirement of these standards to use primary source material to promote inquiry and higher order thinking skills.

Keywords

Information literacy, Common Core national curriculum standards, K-12, Archives, Special collections, Primary sources, Digitization

Publication Type and Release Option

Presentation (Open Access)

Recommended Citation

Vlastnik, Trish, "Information Literacy and the Common Core: Collaborative Opportunities" (2012). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 22.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2012/2012/22