Start Here: Scaffolding Information Literacy Skills for First-Year Composition Students
Type of Presentation
Workshop (1 hour and 15 minutes)
Target Audience
Higher Education
Location
Room 210
Proposal
Please see presentation description for more information.
This workshop will begin with some background: What inspired the creation of a toolkit for teaching information literacy skills at the college level?
Next, participants will try out some of the modules.
Facilitators will lead a discussion about poignant examples of student work (both from the modules and from excerpts of research writing post-toolkit).
In groups, participants will practice scaffolding the toolkit into their own assignments.
Finally, the session will conclude by discussing various assessment models, and looking ahead to how the site is maintained and revised.
Short Description
The composition classroom has become the defacto place to introduce information literacy skills in college. Yet how do students receive consistent practice with these skills? During a major curriculum revision, the GRCC English Department created an information literacy toolkit that became a requirement for all EN 101 students to complete. The 8-module toolkit is online, and went live for the Fall 2017 semester. This workshop will discuss how the site was created, and lead participants through a hands-on sampling of the modules. Student work from the modules will be analyzed in discussion. Participants will actively engage in scaffolding the toolkit to work with their own assignments, building information literacy skills upon each other. We will examine assessment models for this work, as well as possibilities for future iterations and revisions.
Keywords
Community College Information Literacy, Toolkit, Modules, Higher Education, English, Composition, Writing with Research
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Kalisz, Katrina M.; Lockard, Megan; Roblin, Kellie; Lesert, Maryann; DeBie, Lori; and Muhammad, Mursalata, "Start Here: Scaffolding Information Literacy Skills for First-Year Composition Students" (2018). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 83.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2018/2018/83
Start Here: Scaffolding Information Literacy Skills for First-Year Composition Students
Room 210
Please see presentation description for more information.
This workshop will begin with some background: What inspired the creation of a toolkit for teaching information literacy skills at the college level?
Next, participants will try out some of the modules.
Facilitators will lead a discussion about poignant examples of student work (both from the modules and from excerpts of research writing post-toolkit).
In groups, participants will practice scaffolding the toolkit into their own assignments.
Finally, the session will conclude by discussing various assessment models, and looking ahead to how the site is maintained and revised.
