Information
Explore Information is centered on introducing students to the different types of information they may encounter in an academic environment.
What you'll find here:
Additional Readings: Identifying Threshold Concepts for Information Literacy
Exercises: Process Cards
Process Cards
Instructions for use:
These pages are designed to be printed out and cut down to create decks of cards. Each deck should include one formative process, along with six different types of information. Decks are then distributed to small groups of students with instructions to discuss and arrange the six types of information by whatever the process card says. So, for example, “rank these cards by which format involves the least amount of research up to the one which involves the most.”
Afterwards, each group should state their ranking to the full class and explain why they decided to order things the way that they did. Hopefully doing so will spark a discussion of how different processes contribute to the “value” of information in different contexts, and how there is no one “correct” order.
- Process Cards ExerciseAn exercise designed to get students about the process of information creation. Designed by librarian Kevin Seeber.
Identifying Threshold Concepts for Information Literacy
- Identifying Threshold Concepts for Information Literacy: A Delphi StudyPage 34 explains some of the essential questions underlying this section. Take a peek "under the hood!"
