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University 101 Instructor Manual -- 2016
Becker, Jill K. Reed, Michelle Gamble, Stephanie Leung, Sofia
Becker, Jill K.
Reed, Michelle
Gamble, Stephanie
Leung, Sofia
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Abstract
The University 101 Information Literacy Unit Instructor Manual describes a three-day information literacy unit that is integrated into first-year experience courses at the University of Kansas.
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The University of Kansas Libraries’ staff utilized the “Authority is Constructed and Contextual” frame from ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education to develop a three-day information literacy unit that is integrated into the university’s first-year experience courses. Day one of the unit consists of an information cycle activity where each student analyzes a different source type. Day two requires students to bring in sources on an assigned topic. Students participate in a discussion on authority as a criteria for evaluating sources in both academic and non-academic contexts and discuss the value of the sources they’ve found. Day three consists of an active-learning game where students practice evaluating sources for markers of authority in scenarios with both academic and non-academic information needs. Finally, the unit ends with an exam that requires students to apply what they learned throughout the unit to a new situation. Project files for the game referenced in Section 2 of the manual are available via KU ScholarWorks at https://hdl.handle.net/1808/21508.
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2016
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University of Kansas Libraries