A growing body of research indicates that today's students struggle to evaluate the credibility of news and other sources. With limited time to teach nuanced evaluation skills, how can instruction librarians prepare students to navigate an online environment suffused with misinformation and propaganda? What are the information literacy skills you want students to carry with them after they leave college, and how can your pedagogy transform to meet these needs? How are your faculty currently teaching information literacy concepts in the classroom, and can you train them to do more? In this session, you'll learn about the Citizen Literacy toolkit, a collection of online teaching tools designed to help disciplinary faculty infuse information literacy into their courses. Participants will leave with concrete ideas for integrating citizen literacy concepts into their pedagogy and strategies for encouraging faculty to take part in the development of informed and engaged citizens.
Participants will:
- Enhance their pedagogy, drawing on current trends from the research literature to broaden the scope of their information literacy instruction.
- Formulate actionable strategies to foster informed democratic citizenship, based on their respective institutional contexts.
- Utilize engaging and flexible online content to promote faculty development across disciplines and increase awareness of essential twenty-first-century information skills.
