Learning Activities
Overview
As we dig into the conversation about academic success, research shows that information literacy is essential to the ongoing learning process and students' success. Use these activities to explore information literacy further.
Activity 1
Information Literacy in Real Life
Consider these questions:
- Can you remember a time when you needed information outside of academic life - that is, in real life?
- What questions were you trying to answer?
- How did you seek the information needed?
- How did you decide you had enough information?
- Was there anything that almost led to misinformation?
Tasks:
- Share your memory with the class.
You can create an idea board (i.e., a poster or visual representation), or video, audio, or discussion board post (whichever is most appropriate for your class and meets your instructor’s guidelines). Be sure to answer each question listed in the prompt. - View, watch, or listen to 3 of your classmates' posts to learn more about their Info Lit experiences.
- Respond to 1 classmate’s post using these sentence stems:
(a) “thank you for sharing your . . .”,
(b) “I liked / found interesting / can relate to / enjoyed . . . while listening to / reading / viewing your memory”, and
(c) “I wonder . . .”.
* Note - It is important not to judge individuals by their need for information. Everyone comes from different lived experiences. Our information needs will differ, but that doesn’t make them any less insignificant.