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2022-09-01
In 2021 the University of Alberta (UAlberta) Library created a one-year Teaching & Learning (T&L) Strategy Working Group whose goal was to recommend a sustainable framework for a library-wide teaching and learning program that will rationalize and coordinate our teaching and instructional...
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Against the wind: Challenges and barriers to Canadian academic librarians’ instructional practices
Download2017-01-01
Polkinghorne, Sarah, Julien, Heidi
Helping students learn how to navigate information—and misinformation—is as important as ever. The Canadian information literacy (IL) landscape continues to evolve along with rhetorical, theoretical, and contextual developments, such as the new Framework for Information Literacy for Higher...
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2016
This chapter describes a visualization of the main elements in play when we search for information. The chapter describes how this visualization can be used to start classroom conversations around how social, political, and economic systems influence how people create, organize, find, and gain...
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2015-09-09
Within our field, and more widely, there is a way of thinking that equates effective teaching with effective entertaining. This way of thinking can be referred to as a “discourse of edutainment.” It underpins some of the publications and conversations that encourage librarians to make their...
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Insights from the performing arts for information professionals who teach
2014-10-23
This presentation critiques the discourse of teacher-as-entertainer and examines five elements from the performing arts that can provide meaningful insights for information professionals who teach: physicality, defining the situation, extemporizing, scripts, and acting.
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Fall 2013
Online communication has spread into myriad forms in the new millennium, providing more opportunity for misinformation and deceit. In this study, Web users were asked for their personal estimates of authorial age, gender, and veracity for several examples of Web media, as well as on what media...
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Instruction for Information Literacy in Canadian Academic Libraries: A Longitudinal Analysis of Aims, Methods, and Success
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Tan, Maria, Julien, Heidi, Merillat, Shannon
The study reports a survey of information literacy instruction practices in Canadian academic libraries. Results indicate that formal instruction is offered by 89% of respondents, a minority of which articulate formal instructional objectives or work in libraries with full-time instructional...