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Amite
Sculpture
On The Campus Of
SUNY-Plattsburgh
Karen Volkman [email protected]
Division of Library and Information Services
SUNY - Plattsburgh
Ray Guydosh [email protected]
School of Business & Economics
SUNY - Plattsburgh
Teaching Information Literacy Transfer Through Free-Standing, Credit Bearing Courses
Challenges for College Students and Other Learners
• The past 10 years have witnessed an exponential growth in information
• Much of this information has little accountability
• Much of this information has little value
• Students lack a framework to analyze and apply information
Students Have Adapted Poorly to the New Information
Environment• Overabundance of information encourages
students to focus on finding answers
• Students don’t know how to make an information framework and thus will accept the first information found
Strategies: two student assumptions: looking for answers• Research involves looking for “answers”
– Adapt question to the information available on Web– Accept information uncritically if it answers questions;
do not sift judgmentally or consciously look for verification
– “Answer mindset” encourages surfing, skimming vs. analysis, simplicity vs. ambiguity, superficiality over depth
– Students find things, content, reinforcing Web’s value in their eyes
The Web, Students, Research, and Librarieshttp://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/dennis.kimmage/
Behaviors• Scan sites quickly, rarely scroll to bottom of page• Judge relevance by what’s on top of screen• Let retrieved items determine relevance• Non-linear searching – promote serendipity and distraction,
wasted time, fruitless site hopping, poor concentration, thought
• Unable to limit results, increase relevance• Too much material means students fail to continue
investigations to logical end – use what comes first, regardless of how it shapes study.
The Web, Students, Research, and Librarieshttp://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/dennis.kimmage/
Information Literacy and Data Manipulation Course Perceptions• Seen as skills based courses
• All you need to know is which button to press
• Easy courses without much thinking involved
• You can get by if you skim the computer manual
Information Literacy Combats Keyboarding
• Despite perceptions, information literacy helps develop knowledge frameworks
• Information literacy can develop legitimacy as an academic discipline
• Information literacy draws on communication, education, and management of information system (MIS) disciplines
• All these frameworks place emphasis on learning and critical thinking
Premise (from presenters and colleagues):Information Literacy is best acquired when integratedinto other subject courses
Current Frameworks for Understanding Information
Literacy
• Doyle Information Literate Person
• ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards
• Bruce Seven Faces of Information Literacy
Doyle• Recognizes the need for information• Recognizes that accurate and complete information is the
basis for intelligent decision-making• Identifies potential sources of information• Develops successful search strategies• Accesses sources of information, including computer-based
and other technologies• Evaluates information• Organizes information for practical application• Integrates new information into an existing body of
knowledge• Uses information in critical thinking and problem solving
ACRL• Determines the nature and extent of the information
needed• Accesses needed information effectively and efficiently• Evaluates information and its sources critically and
incorporates selected information into his or her knowledge base and value system
• individually or as a member of a group, uses information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose
• Understands many of the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information and accesses and uses information ethically and legally
Bruce• One: Information literacy is seen as using information technology
for information retrieval and communication• Two: Information literacy is seen as finding information located in
formation sources• Three: Information literacy is seen as executing a process• Four: Information literacy is seen as controlling information• Five: Information literacy is seen as building up a personal
knowledge base in a new area of interest• Six: Information literacy is sees as working with knowledge and
personal perspectives adopted in such a way that novel insights are gained
• Seven: Information literacy is seen as using information wisely for benefit of others
Integration Not Mentioned• All frameworks point to information literacy as a
serious course of study• All imply that information literacy inherently has
value as a discipline• All frameworks link information literacy to an
academic learning process not to be subsumed by another discipline
• All mention the importance of the creation of a knowledge base
Disadvantages of Course Integration Infrastructure
• Implies skill “check off” system
• Other faculty are unlikely to give sufficient time to integrate another discipline into their course
• Information literacy is compartmentalized into one subject
• Doesn’t lead to transfer across other subjects
Typical Scenario for Course Integration
• Integration into English101 or Com101
• These are courses that are already marginalized
• Rarely seen as applicable to students in higher level courses
• Learn evaluation and analysis of material in the context of a basic required course
One Shot Course-Related Integration
• Teach to one specific assignment
• Information literacy very narrowly focused
• Major critical thinking involves facile topics such as database selection
• Little teaching of analysis
Link to Course Related Example
Advantages of Credit-Bearing Course in Information Literacy
and Data Manipulation• Demonstrate that course is more than just
keyboarding
• Transfers more broadly to other disciplines
• Information literacy and data manipulation aren’t just check off boxes on somebody else’s syllabus
• Starts the creation of a knowledge base in learning about information
Knowledge Base in Data Manipulation Courses
(spreadsheets)• Students learn data structure and data
formation
• Students learn types of analysis that can be performed
• Students learn how to organize data
• Students learn how to manipulate data for analysis and problem solving
MGM 272 Tasks with Problem Solving Applications
Sample Problem Solving Assignment to Perform Breakeven Analysis for a Product
Knowledge Base in Information Literacy Courses
• Start learning information framework to critically evaluate
• Learn what information is available• Learn when inform needs to be created• Learn to recognize “garbage in garbage out” data• Learn what questions need to be asked when
using information that will lead to problem solving
Article Knowledge BaseConcept
Email at Work: Don't Let It Get You inTrouble
Email Advantages andPitfalls
Drucker, Peter. Be Data Literate--KnowWhat to Know Wall Street Journal, 1Dec. 1992
Data Literacy
2 the Corporate Intranet: Ford MotorFortune, May 24, 1999
Intranets
Knowledge Management: An OverviewInformation Management Journal, July2000, v. 34
KnowledgeManagement
How Numbers Can Trick YouTechnology Review, Oct. 1994, v97 n7.
Critical Use ofStatistics
Digital Economy 2000 Electronic Commerce"Junk Food and the Internet: TheEconomics of Information" from CliffordStoll's book High Tech Heretic
"Garbage in GarbageOut"
Internet Search Techniques andStrategies Online, July 1997, v21 n4
Internet SearchEngines
Knowledge Base for Business Information Literacy Class
Data Literacy Knowledge Base Framework
Be Data Literate -Know What to Know
Peter F. DruckerWall Street Journal, 12/1/1992
• Few executives yet know how to ask: What information do I need to do my job? When do I need it? In what form? And from whom should I be getting it? Fewer still ask: What new tasks can I tackle now the I get all these data? Which old tasks should I abandon? Which tasks should I do differently?
Knowledge Base for Quality and Quantity Information Framework “Garbage In Garbage Out”
Student Response to Knowledge Base
Student Response to Knowledge BaseYES! They get it!
Statistical Considerations Knowledge Base
Critical Thinking to Create Information
• Drucker points out that often the most useful information is information that we’ve never considered gathering
• Students must be cognizant when they need to gather their own information for problem solving
• Students must understand that just because it isn’t on the Web or in some other available format doesn’t mean that the information isn’t relevant for analysis
Questions Fields for EachPreference
What do you like to eat while watchingT.V.?
TV Snacking
When do you eat snack foods? When Eat
Do you prefer snack foods that are hot(need cooking) or cold (like potato chips)?
Temperature
How much time are you willing to spendpreparing snack food?
Time Prep
Do you like spicy food? Spicy snacks
Rate the taste on a scale of 1-5 Rate 1-5
Would you purchase this product? Purchase
Where do you shop for groceries? Where Shop
Gender Gender
Approximate age Age
Creation of a Survey and Putting Information in a Database Retrieval Framework
Database to Generate Consumer Data Profiles for a Product
• See the database
• Perform consumer queries on the database
Link to MS Access worksheetp. 19 and 21
Link to Final Project Guidelines
Using the Knowledge Base and Information Analysis Framework for Competitive Intelligence
Final Thoughts
• Integration of information literacy into courses is the latest trend
• Nothing in the most prominent information literacy frameworks specifies this integration
• It behooves us as a discipline to conduct more research in this area to determine if the loses outweigh the gains by giving up our own discipline of information literacy to other classes
Karen Volkman [email protected]
Ray Guydosh [email protected]
Teaching Information Literacy Transfer Through Free-Standing, Credit Bearing Courses