Post on 19-Jan-2016
Assignments Worth Doing:Engaging in Inquiry
Jean Donham, Ph. D.
Cornell College
Iowa ACRL
March 3, 2008
Information Literacy
Skills, knowledge, and disposition for meaning-making
Contextual Inquiry-based
Student Research
What do today’s students think library research looks like?
Assembly?Cut and paste?Reporting?
Transferring?
Gordon, Carol (1999). Students as authentic researchers: A new prescription for the high school research assignment,” School Library Media Research Online, volume 2: 1-21.
Learning is in the question. . .
Encyclopedic: Information but rarely insight.
Meaning-oriented: What is the significance within a context?
Relational: What are the factors. . .? What influences. . .? What is the effect of time and events?
Value-oriented: What is the impact. . .? Who cares and why?
Solution-oriented: What can be done? What needs to be done?
Inquiry
ObservingQuestioning
AnalyzingQuestioning
ReflectingQuestioning
Findings
Relevant/PersonalNot just reportingCuriosity“Research in reverse”“Thinking like a scientist”
Authenticity
Higher order thinking Deep knowledge Substantive conversation Real-world connection
Newmann, Fred, Secada, Walter, and Wehlage, Gary (1995). A Guide to Authentic Instruction and Asessment: Vision, Standards and Scoring. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
Biology
Information Literacy Defined
Attainment of the skills, knowledge, and disposition that enable one to locate, evaluate, use and communicate information effectively for the purposes of solving a problem, making a decision, or generating new knowledge.
Information Literacy Dimensions
Skills: be able to generate meaningful questions be skilled in locating information be able evaluating information be able to analyze information and use it to construct
meaning be able to apply information intelligently to problems
and decisions
Information Literacy Dimensions
Knowledge: What is intellectual property and why does it
matter? How is information organized to provide access in
electronic resources? What is bias and how does one recognize it?
Information Literacy Dimensions
Dispositions: be curious be open-minded be investigative be metacognitive be strategic reason use evidence
Ritchhart, R. (2001, April). From IQ to IC: A dispositional view of intelligence. Roeper Review, 23 (3): 143-150.
LearningYou can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~Clay P. Bedford
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves. ~Robert Hutchins
Sources citedDonham, Jean, Kay Bishop, Carol Collier Kuhlthau, and Dianne Oberg (2001). Inquiry-
Based Learning: Lessons from Library Power. Worthington, OH: Linworth Press.
Farmer, Leslie. (2007). What Is the Question?. IFLA Journal, 33(1), 41-49
Gordon, Carol (1999). Students as authentic researchers: A new prescription for the high school research assignment,” School Library Media Research Online, volume 2: 1-21.
Newmann, Fred, Walter G. Secada, and Gary G. Wehlage (1995). A Guide to Authentic Instruction and Assessment: Vision, Standards, and Scoring. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
Ritchhart, Ron. (2001). From IQ to IC: A dispositional view of intelligence. Roeper Review, 23 (3): 143-150.