This panel will discuss how we have developed a credit-bearing information literacy course, taught in both the U.S. and China, that is student-centered and focuses on how the internet influences and controls our lives. Through engagement with readings, discussions and an ethnography project, students are encouraged to deepen their information seeking behaviors, create their own perspectives about ethical issues related to technology, and examine what it means to be constantly connected to information. Session participants will hear about the course topics, active learning exercises, discussions, and ethnographic projects designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills.
Participants will be able to:
- Describe a variety of active learning activities that can be used in in-person or online classrooms to increase students' understanding of digital literacies.
- Demonstrate strategies to create a sense of community in the classroom to encourage expression of differing points of view.
- Identify examples of real-world impacts of access to information in order to engage students in applying critical thinking skills.
