Information literacy

I am the Information Literacy Program and Library Services Coordinator, an Assistant Professor, and Reference Librarian at a community college in the Philadelphia area. During the past ten years I have taught undergraduate and graduate courses in research methods, instructional systems, and information literacy. I completed my doctoral degree from Northeastern University in Education. My doctoral research examined how community college English faculty members teach information literacy in an…

information literacy, model ethical and civic responsibility, and communicate effectively ("About Aultman," 2015-2016). Aultman is accredited by the Higher Learning for Commission, Ohio Board of Regents, and the Ohio Board of Nursing. Students are taught the professional standards, guidelines and competency that they will be expected to adhere to as future nurses. Student Learner Outcomes Students at Aultman work hard for their nursing degree. Students at Aultman are expected to complete a…

Importance of Physical Literacy The definition of physical literacy refers to the “motivation, confidence, physical competence, knowledge and understanding to value and take responsibility for engagement in physical activities (International Physical Literacy Association, 2014). In Canada’s Physical Literacy Consensus Statement in June of 2015- stakeholders began to note the importance of implementing physical literacy from a young age. This rapid excitement about the topic lead to an increase…

different types of literacies and the TPACK framework I believe the information from the three can be intertwined in some ways. TPACK emerged as a framework for identifying and understanding the complex interplay of teachers’ technological knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and content knowledge and how these knowledge bases influence how a teacher effectively integrates technology into classroom instruction (Hutchison, Beschorner, & Schmidt-Crawford, 2012). While new media literacies are a set…

opening Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning Across the Curriculum (Vacca et al., 2014), I had never thought of literacy as something that was vital to a high school math class. I was under the assumption that math was comprised of working through problems with students to find the solution, but I now recognize that there is greater knowledge to teach and learn. Chapter one of Content Area Reading opened my eyes to the importance of teaching content literacy. A study conducted by Harold…

Using new literacies in the classroom can intimidate any educator, especially those unfamiliar with new literacies themselves. Incorporating social media, online media, and new technologies can prove difficult with hit-and-miss results on behalf of both teachers and students. There is also a glaring inequality in the availability of the resources needed to use new literacies, which puts less fortunate students at a further disadvantage if these literacies become common in better funded schools.…

digital literacy has fallen way to the need for digital literacies. Fortunately Allan Martin in Digital Literacies for Learning puts it in more measured and useful terms, with a focus to enable educators. “Enabling education in a digital environment means not only changing the form in which learning opportunities are offered, but also enabling students to survive and prosper in digitally-based learning environments… Traditional notions of literacy need to be challenged, and new literacies,…

The idea of Literacy Sponsorship described by Brandt shows that we become literate from everyday activities from the people we meet, the places we go to everyday and the resources we have at our disposal. In my experience in reading and writing, there has been numerous Literacy Sponsors in their own form. While growing up, my parents acted as my first literacy sponsors and helped me through reading and writing then throughout school. In my Sophomore year of High School, my teacher introduced a…

assignment in English, we were asked to interview someone and talk about their literacies. My first thought was right along the lines of “what is the point of this”. I didn’t understand how learning about how someone else established their writing and reading habits would be beneficial to me and my habits. It wasn’t until I started interviewing my partner when I realized the purpose of this paper. My partner, Jenae, looked at literacy completely different than me. I was taught to read by my…

In preparing for the completion of this assignment, I looked up the articles referenced in Chapter 2 concerning the three theories of information literacy and behavior. I found that my background knowledge was limited and I had a very difficult time discerning the important information in each article and then distilling that information into something that was usable and made sense to me. I finally settled on accepting “Practice Theory” as the one that is the “best theory” mainly because it…