Posts Tagged ‘instruction’
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“It was information based”: Student Reasoning when Distinguishing Between Scholarly and Popular Sources
2018–05–16 | 2 commentsIn Brief: We asked students to find an article and answer the following questions: Is this a popular or scholarly article? How can you tell? We analyzed student answers to better understand the reasoning used to distinguish between scholarly and popular sources. Our results suggest that framing sources as “scholarly or popular” is confusing rather…
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Librarians Leading Short-Term Study Abroad
2017–06–14 | 2 commentsTags: curriculum, faculty-led, high impact practices, information literacy, information literacy framework, instruction, international, short-term study abroad, social justice, study abroadIn Brief: Study abroad is a well-established method for transformative learning, recognized by the American Association of Colleges and Universities as a high-impact practice. Over the past decade, short-term faculty-led study abroad—immersive academic courses lasting eight weeks or less—has quickly become the most popular type of international experience in the United States, comprising more than 62%…
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Unpacking and overcoming “edutainment” in library instruction
2015–09–09 | 2 commentsPhoto by Flickr user Jen Kim (CC BY 4.0) In Brief Within our field, and more widely, there is a way of thinking that equates effective teaching with effective entertaining. This way of thinking can be referred to as a “discourse of edutainment.” It underpins some of the publications and conversations that encourage librarians to make their teaching…
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Ice Ice Baby: Are Librarian Stereotypes Freezing Us out of Instruction?
2014–06–03 | 15 commentsTags: academic libraries, collaboration, college students, educational psychology, faculty, impression management, information literacy, instruction, outreach, pegagogy, perceptions, stereotypes, teachingIn Brief: Why do librarians struggle so much with instruction? Part of the problem is that we have so many facets to consider: pedagogy, campus culture, relationships with faculty, and effectiveness with students. Research on student and faculty perceptions of librarians combined with sociological and psychological research on the magnitude of impression effects prompted us to…
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A New Polemic: Libraries, MOOCs, and the Pedagogical Landscape
2013–08–21 | 10 commentsIn Brief: The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) has emerged in the past few years as the poster child of the online higher education revolution. Lauded and derided, MOOCs (depending on who you ask) represent the democratization of education on a global scale, an overblown trend, or the beginning of the end of the traditional…
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From the Frying Pan Into the Fire (and Back Again): Adventures in Subject-Based, Credit Instruction
2012–03–07 | 7 commentsBy Natalie Tagge My best experience as a teacher-librarian was leading a credit, semester-long course while a librarian at the University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) during which my students came to care deeply about the topical content and used their developing research skills to further their engagement. For librarians, though, this is the exception rather…
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CSI(L) Carleton: Forensic Librarians and Reflective Practices
2011–12–14 | 17 commentsIn the Library with the Lead Pipe is pleased to welcome guest authors Iris Jastram, Danya Leebaw, and Heather Tompkins. They are reference and instruction librarians at Carleton College, a small liberal arts college in Minnesota. by Danya Leebaw, Heather Tompkins and Iris Jastram Becoming forensic librarians “Wait, this is information literacy?” a rhetorician at…
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Making it their idea: The Learning Cycle in library instruction
2010–03–31 | 7 commentsby Eric Frierson Librarians are always struggling to convince someone of something: convincing voters to say ‘yes’ to a library bond; persuading a library director to invest in a text-messaging reference tool; trying to get students to use library resources instead of Google. One of the most effective ways to be successful is to learn…
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What water?
2010–01–21 | Comments Off on What water?Tags: collaboration, college students, information literacy, instruction, instructional design, research, teachingby Sara Seely Recently I was lucky enough to come across the publication of a commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace in 2005 to a group of wide-eyed graduates from Kenyon College. While it’s difficult to sum up what one takes away from a four-year-degree, this particular rumination helps to qualify the value of…
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[RE]Boot Camp: Share Some. Learn More. Teach Better.
2009–10–28 | Comments Off on [RE]Boot Camp: Share Some. Learn More. Teach Better.Tags: information literacy, instruction, instructional design, planning, teaching, training, workshopBy Ellie Collier Setting the Stage Last fall, as a part of the Texas Library Association’s “Transforming” initiative, my library held its own transforming retreat. Austin Community College (ACC) Library Services has gone through a hiring spurt recently, adding 10 new full time librarians in just the last three years. This retreat brought together all 23…
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Learning to teach through video
2009–10–14 | 13 commentsBy Kim Leeder It’s a truth so many of us keep in the dark corners of our lives as instruction librarians: we were never taught to teach. We’re not unusual, really, and the same is true of many of our higher education colleagues. We study a field, we gain some expertise in that field, and then…
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Sense of self: Embracing your teacher identity
2009–08–19 | 22 commentsTags: authenticity, identity, information literacy, instruction, leadership, librarians, librarianship, libraries, teachingWelcome to another guest post at ItLwtLP. This time we bring you thoughts from Carrie Donovan, an instruction librarian at Indiana University Bloomington. Enjoy! By Carrie Donovan Once upon a time in libraries, you could call yourself a good teacher if you spent more than 30 minutes planning a lesson, if you wowed students with your…
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Stepping on Toes: The Delicate Art of Talking to Faculty about Questionable Assignments
2009–03–18 | 19 commentsTags: faculty, information literacy, instruction, librarian/faculty relationships, library assignmentsBy Ellie Collier Working in an academic environment, the majority of my student interactions are based around a specific assignment. Every semester there is at least one assignment that comes across my reference desk that makes me throw my hands up in exasperation (such as: a scavenger hunt that was written before we moved much of…
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Narrating the “Back Story” Through E-learning Resources in Libraries
2009–01–28 | 14 commentsTags: digital learning materials, e-learning, instruction, instructional design, learning objects, peer reviewWe at In the Library with the Lead Pipe are happy to welcome two guest authors to our blog! Hyun-Duck Chung and Kim Duckett are two of our creative and inspiring colleagues at the North Carolina State University Libraries. Read on to learn more… By Hyun-Duck Chung and Kim Duckett Lately we’ve been thinking a lot about the…
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In Praise of the Internet: Shifting Focus and Engaging Critical Thinking Skills
2009–01–07 | 25 commentsTags: information literacy, instructionBy Ellie Collier My alternate title for this post was “The Internet is awesome. Start acting like it.” It is a call to arms to shift our attitude away from magnifying the perils of online research and towards examining the many types of useful information along with how and when to use them; to shift our…
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Sticking it to Instruction
2008–11–05 | 10 commentsMade to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath & Dan Heath By Ellie Collier I always feel the need to preface my praise for this book with a little background. I’ve read a slew of best sellers on behavior. I started when a friend was raving about Malcolm Gladwell. I…