Not Just Where to Click: Teaching Students How to Think about Information (PIL #68)

Heather Jagman
Troy A. Swanson
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2015
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Winner of the 2016 ACRL Instruction Section Ilene F. Rockman Award

Not Just Where to Click: Teaching Students How to Think about Information explores how librarians and faculty work together to teach students about the nature of expertise, authority, and credibility. It provides practical approaches for motivating students to explore their beliefs, biases, and ways of interpreting the world.

This book also includes chapters that bridge the gap between the epistemological stances and threshold concepts held by librarians and faculty, and those held by students, focusing on pedagogies that challenge students to evaluate authority, connect to prior knowledge and construct new knowledge in a world of information abundance. Authors draw from a deep pool of perspectives including social psychology, critical theory, and various philosophical traditions.

Contributors to the nineteen chapters in this volume offer a balance of theoretical and applied approaches to teaching information literacy, supplying readers with accessible and innovative ideas ready to be put into practice.

Not Just Where to Click is appropriate for all types of academic libraries, and is also suitable for library and information science curricula and collections.

  Introduction. More than Just Where to ClickTroy A. Swanson and Heather Jagman PART 1. Bridging the Gap between Librarians, Students, and Faculty: Conceptualizing Information 1.1 Librarian and Faculty Epistemologies and Beliefs 

Chapter 1. Theories of Knowledge in Library and Information ScienceLane Wilkinson  Chapter 2. Beyond Tools and Skills: Putting Information Back into Information LiteracyBeth McDonough  Chapter 3. Librarianspeak: Metaphors That Reflect (and Shape) the Ethos and Practice of Academic LibrarianshipMaryBeth Meszaros and Alison M. Lewis Chapter 4. The Social Life of Knowledge: Faculty EpistemologiesBarbara Fister

 1.2 Student Epistemologies and Beliefs 

Chapter 5. Generation Z: Information Facts and FictionsAshley Cole, Trenia Napier, and Brad Marcum Chapter 6. Search Epistemology: Teaching Students about Information DiscoveryAndrew D. Asher Chapter 7. Studying Sources: Truth, Method, and Teaching BibliographyPatricia Brown Chapter 8. Towards an Assumption Responsive Information Literacy Curriculum: Lessons from Student Qualitative DataRob Morrison and Deana Greenfield

 PART 2. Making It Work: Teaching Students about Information 2.1 The Nature of Expertise, Authority, and Credibility 

Chapter 9. Expertise and Authority in an Age of CrowdsourcingWilliam B. Badke Chapter 10. Knowledge Societies: Learning for a Diverse World Alison Hicks  Author(ity): Engaging Students in Scholarship Brian W. Young and Daniel Von Holten

 

Chapter 12. From Counting Sources to Sources That Count: Reframing Authority and Accountability in First-Year CompositionNicole Walls and Amy Pajewski 

 2.2 Point of View, Belief, and Source Bias 

Chapter 13. Through a Mirror Darkly: A Postmodern Approach to Teaching Expertise, Authority, and Bias Stephen A. Sanders Chapter 14. Librarians and Students: Making the ConnectionsJulie Obst and Joe Eshleman Chapter 15. Fragmented Stories: Uncovering News Bias through Information Literacy InstructionWillie Miller

 2.3 Interpreting the World 

Chapter 16. Logical Fallacies and Sleight of Mind: Rhetorical Analysis as a Tool for Teaching Critical ThinkingJessica Critten, Anne C. Barnhart, and Craig Schroer Chapter 17. Scholarly Storytelling: Using Stories as a Roadmap to Authentic and Creative Library ResearchRebecca Halpern and Lisa Lepore  Chapter 18. Doing It Yourself: Special Collections as a Springboard for Personal, Critical Approaches to InformationLucy Mulroney and Patrick Williams Chapter 19. Witnessing the World: Journalism, Skepticism, and Information LiteracyLaura Saunders

 Biographies Index

Heather Jagman

Heather Jagman is the coordinator of reference, instruction, and academic engagement and the subject liaison to the Theatre School at DePaul University Library in Chicago. She was an ERIAL Project participant and a 2013 ACRL IMLS Assessment in Action grant recipient. She is particularly interested in information literacy and library user behavior.Troy A. Swanson is the teaching and learning librarian and the library department chair at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills, Illinois, where he is also the president of the Moraine Valley Faculty Association. Troy is the author of the book Managing Social Media in Libraries: Finding Collaboration, Coordination, and Focus and coauthor of the textbook Why White Rice? Thinking through Writing. He has published on social media, website usability, and information literacy. Troy is also a contributor to the Tame the Web blog.

Troy A. Swanson

Troy A. Swanson is the teaching and learning librarian and the library department chair at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills, Illinois, where he is also the president of the Moraine Valley Faculty Association. Troy is the author of the book Managing Social Media in Libraries: Finding Collaboration, Coordination, and Focus and coauthor of the textbook Why White Rice? Thinking through Writing. He has published on social media, website usability, and information literacy. Troy is also a contributor to the Tame the Web blog.

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