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Enhancing Information Literacy: Strategies for Educators and Library Staff

This session focuses on improving the information literacy and study skills of students by embedding essential skills into teaching and learning practices. Participants will explore various aspects of information skills, including searching, evaluating sources, referencing, and avoiding plagiarism. We'll discuss the importance of these skills in today's digital age and how educators can assess and support students in developing their capabilities. Through hands-on activities and resource suggestions, attendees will leave with practical tools to enhance their teaching methodologies and contribute to a culture of information literacy.

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Enhancing Information Literacy: Strategies for Educators and Library Staff

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  1. m.gallon@rsc-wm.ac.uk 07980 982678 John Rylands Library, Manchester By “Anosmia” on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/jenniferboyer/ Information skills overview Wiki: http://qurl.com/n8rkt

  2. Your name? • Your role? • Your expectations? Introductions “Whadyya mean all my facts are wrong...?” “I copied everything straight off the Internet!”

  3. Define study & information skills • Explore how you can support information skills in your role • Suggest some useful resources and let you try them out This session will: “Whadyya mean all my facts are wrong...?” “I copied everything straight off the Internet!”

  4. Library skills Information literacy Definition? Study skills Media literacy Information skills IT skills Digital literacy

  5. What are they? • How important are these skills? • How do you rate today’s • students’ information skills? Activity: defining information skills Image by kslovesbooks: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kslovesbooks/

  6. Search • Evaluation • Understanding sources • Choosing keywords • Referencing • Avoiding plagiarism • Note-taking • Skimming and scanning • Sharing content • Presenting • ICT? Defining information skills

  7. I-skills are not just for library/LRC staff • All staff have some responsibility for embedding these skills in teaching and learning • Some staff have better skills than others • ICT skills and e-safety are part of the equation • Organisations needs a strategy for improving information literacy and the skills needed to achieve it Who’s job? Image by Jade Gordon: http://www.sxc.hu/profile/JadeGordon

  8. Internet Detective Useful resources Virtual Training Suite I&CL Scotland Neil’s Toolbox Wiltshire College “study skills” Skills4Study Referencing@Portsmouth

  9. Try out one (or more) of the I-skills resources • Which students would the resource suit best? • What are the best aspects of the resource? • How could it be improved? • How could you use it in your practice? Hands-on http://qurl.com/n8rkt

  10. To support individuals? • To support student groups? • To support teachers? • To develop your own skills? • To raise the profile of Information Skills at the college? What can you do in your role?

  11. Library-led i-skills workshops • To support individuals? • To support student groups? • To support teachers? • To develop your own skills? • To raise the profile of Information Skills • at the college? What can you do in your role? I-skills included in curriculum offer and schemes of work College information literacy strategy Collection of i-skills tools on Intranet/Moodle Staff development Less “spoon-feeding” Organisation-wide approach

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