Bringing back the Trapper Keeper: Analog Information Literacy Solutions in a Digital Environment
Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation
Conference Strand
Critical Literacy
Target Audience
Higher Education
Second Target Audience
K-12
Location
Ballroom A
Relevance
In a changing educational landscape, digital technologies have been an efficient means of delivering content and engaging students, especially during the pandemic, and many college administrators are pushing faculty to embrace the newest technological offerings. However, the increasing reliance on these technologies is creating a backlash among students and situations where critical learning is bypassed and outsourced. AI programs present an easy way for students to complete assignments; however, these programs overlook the necessary thinking and process involved in learning material, especially in writing instruction. We seek to re-introduce students to the magic of pen and paper’s place in the writing process and processing information.In our session, we will share analog assignments that can supplement typical digital options for research assignments that merge classroom instruction with library resource instruction, and we will all reflect on technology’s presence in our course learning environments. Attendees will leave the session with sample information literacy activities that can be applied to their workspaces, whether in-person, hybrid, online, or drop-in.
Proposal
We continuously receive announcements and emails about the newest technologies that can be incorporated into student learning. In a changing educational landscape, digital technologies have been an efficient means of delivering content and engaging students, especially during the pandemic, and many college administrators are pushing faculty to embrace the newest technological offerings. However, the increasing reliance on these technologies is creating a backlash among students and situations where critical learning is bypassed and outsourced. AI programs present an easy way for students to complete assignments; however, these programs overlook the necessary thinking and process involved in learning material, especially in writing instruction. Remember the excitement of shopping for the perfect notebook and the thrill of filling that notebook with our creative outputs? We seek to re-introduce students to the magic of pen and paper’s place in the writing process and processing information. Many faculty are reverting to analog assignments as a means to counteract AI cheating. We, instead, want to turn these types of in-class writing assignments from punitive ways of catching “cheaters” to robust and engaging moments of learning for students to fully immerse themselves in the writing process.
In our session, we will share analog assignments that can supplement typical digital options for research assignments that merge classroom instruction with library resource instruction, and we will all reflect on technology’s presence in our course learning environments. Attendees will leave the session with sample information literacy activities that can be applied to their workspaces, whether in-person, hybrid, online, or drop-in.
Short Description
Remember the excitement of shopping for the perfect notebook and the thrill of filling that notebook with our creative outputs? In our session, we will share analog assignments that can supplement typical digital options for research assignments that merge classroom instruction with library resource instruction.
Keywords
analog assignments, counteract AI, research, writing
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Gray, Jennifer P. and Conner, Stephanie B., "Bringing back the Trapper Keeper: Analog Information Literacy Solutions in a Digital Environment" (2026). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 4.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2026/2026/4
Bringing back the Trapper Keeper: Analog Information Literacy Solutions in a Digital Environment
Ballroom A
We continuously receive announcements and emails about the newest technologies that can be incorporated into student learning. In a changing educational landscape, digital technologies have been an efficient means of delivering content and engaging students, especially during the pandemic, and many college administrators are pushing faculty to embrace the newest technological offerings. However, the increasing reliance on these technologies is creating a backlash among students and situations where critical learning is bypassed and outsourced. AI programs present an easy way for students to complete assignments; however, these programs overlook the necessary thinking and process involved in learning material, especially in writing instruction. Remember the excitement of shopping for the perfect notebook and the thrill of filling that notebook with our creative outputs? We seek to re-introduce students to the magic of pen and paper’s place in the writing process and processing information. Many faculty are reverting to analog assignments as a means to counteract AI cheating. We, instead, want to turn these types of in-class writing assignments from punitive ways of catching “cheaters” to robust and engaging moments of learning for students to fully immerse themselves in the writing process.
In our session, we will share analog assignments that can supplement typical digital options for research assignments that merge classroom instruction with library resource instruction, and we will all reflect on technology’s presence in our course learning environments. Attendees will leave the session with sample information literacy activities that can be applied to their workspaces, whether in-person, hybrid, online, or drop-in.
