Library 2.015
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The document provides an overview of a presentation on researching and literacy learning, including configuring audio and sharing profiles for the session. It also previews some of the topics to be covered, such as contextualizing information needs, evaluating sources, and exploring information iteratively and through differing perspectives. The presentation aims to frame new approaches to literacy learning through an integrated understanding of research processes.
![Context is (now) king
• [Context]is a key to understanding how students
operationalize and prioritize their course-related and
everyday life research activities… students
consistently referred to “finding context,” in one form
or another, as the most laborious, yet requisite, part
of the research process (Head & Eisenberg, 2009)
• Nearly all students intentionally make use of a small
compass for traversing the ever-widening and
complex information landscape they inhabit, whether
they are finding information for course work or for
use in their daily lives (Head & Eisenberg, 2010)
• A study of 33 graduates in 23 companies found that
new workers used traditional college information
skills, but workers and employers both felt the need
for them to adapt to business research practices,
especially working with a variety of sources, including
traditional sources and collaborative settings (Head,
et al., 2013)](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/library2-151020202308-lva1-app6892/85/Library-2-015-4-320.jpg)
Library 2.015
- 1. Dr. Sean Cordes Associate Professor, Instruction Services Coordinator Western Illinois University And, Or and Not, Ifs, Ands, or Buts: Framing new literacy learning through process integration. Participants, while you are waiting… • Configure your audio: Tools > Audio > Audio Setup Wizard • Share your profile: Edit > Preferences > Profile • To view profiles of participants: Hover cursor over participant’s name • Connect with other participants using the chat, to the left of this slide. • Tweet using hashtag #Lib2015 Presenter: start the recording when you begin your session
- 2. A Broad Spectrum of Investigation More meaningful ways for finding, filtering and engaging information to meet variety of needs and topics are emerging… Rich, broad, timely, dynamic Deep, vetted, built on fundamentals Specific, focused, validated by peers, innovative, builds case, extendable Timely, informal, informative, conversational
- 3. • Research is iterative • Focus on open, unresolved problems • Problems can be personal or academic • Evidence can be formal or informal • Often includes differing perspectives across time, groups, and disciplines • Builds on existing knowledge, leads to greater ability, understanding and skill RESEARCH AND THE SPIRAL OF INQUIRY Ask Investigate CreateDiscuss Reflect
- 4. Context is (now) king • [Context]is a key to understanding how students operationalize and prioritize their course-related and everyday life research activities… students consistently referred to “finding context,” in one form or another, as the most laborious, yet requisite, part of the research process (Head & Eisenberg, 2009) • Nearly all students intentionally make use of a small compass for traversing the ever-widening and complex information landscape they inhabit, whether they are finding information for course work or for use in their daily lives (Head & Eisenberg, 2010) • A study of 33 graduates in 23 companies found that new workers used traditional college information skills, but workers and employers both felt the need for them to adapt to business research practices, especially working with a variety of sources, including traditional sources and collaborative settings (Head, et al., 2013)
- 5. Teaching students to draw distinctions sets the stage for creating new categories, being open to new information, and being aware of different perspectives. Distinctions reveal that the material is situated in a context and imply that other contexts may be considered. Ellen Langer, Harvard University ON THE THRESHOLD
- 6. AUTHORITY IS CONTEXTUAL AND CONSTRUCTED SCHOLARSHIP AS CONVERSATION Information resources reflect expertise and credibility evaluated based on the information need and the context used. Authority is constructed in that various communities may recognize different types of authority. Information need may help determine level of authority. Communities of scholars, researchers, or professionals engage in sustained discourse with new insights and discoveries occurring over time as a result of varied perspectives and interpretations. Migeon, M. (2013). On Not Being Her Doctor. Annals Of Internal Medicine, 159(2), 153-154. Migeon, M. B. (2013). On not being her doctor. Annals of internal medicine,159(2), 153.
- 8. Book Text-Net Smart Ch 1.
- 11. Information Creation as a Process Information is produced to convey a message, shared via a selected delivery method. Researching, creating, revising, and disseminating information vary, and the resulting product reflects these differences. • capabilities and constraints of information and processes • assess the fit between process and need • articulate traditional and emerging processes information perceived differently based on format • implications of information formats contain static or dynamic information • monitor the value that is placed on types of information products • transfer knowledge of capabilities and constraints to new types of information products • choices impact the purposes for use and the message it conveys
- 12. Live Tweet-The Pitch The top three social media sites used in 2014 are 1) Facebook, 2) Twitter, and 3)Linked In. Out of 654,750,000 twitter account users, there is an average 58 million tweets each day. A college student may not realize the impact the content of their social media sites may have on not only their relationships and school work but also their future career opportunities. The Lead Series: What does your social media say about you presentation will explore different social media sites and explain how ones image is portrayed to future employers. This event will discuss how one can make a good first impression socially, for example on Facebook, or professionally on LinkedIn. We believe as a group that this event will benefit us personally and our twitter followers as well. They will indirectly learn to use social media tools for entertainment and businesslike situations in their near future.
- 14. Research as Inquiry Research is iterative and depends upon asking increasingly complex or new questions whose answers in turn develop additional questions or lines of inquiry in any field.
- 15. A starting point Students today think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors, as a result of being surrounded by new technology (Prensky, 2001). The actual situation is far from clear. A more measured and disinterested approach is now required to investigate ‘digital natives’ and their implications for education (Bennett, Maton, & Kervin, 2008). Quest of inquiry and authority is often open, unresolved, critical, personal, professional, social, and strives for meaning and structure
- 18. A Broad Spectrum of Investigation More meaningful ways for finding, filtering and engaging information to meet variety of needs and topics are emerging… Rich, broad, timely, dynamic Deep, vetted, built on fundamentals Specific, focused, validated by peers, innovative, builds case, extendable Timely, informal, informative, conversational
- 19. Information Has Value Information possesses several dimensions of value, commodity, means of education, means to influence, means of negotiating and understanding the world. Legal and socioeconomic interests influence information.
- 20. Markham Nolan-Contextual detective Found 2 people with that name in two states. Only rain in one state that day. Florida. Found YouTube Video of thunderstorm for potential story. Is it credible? Used Google Maps to verify location by cross referencing clues Search username with free people search tool TEDSalon 2012, https://goo.gl/TghUye
- 21. Building meaning digital collaboration To clarify the details, someone posted a link to the live Police Scanner to Facebook! Citizens reported first and help narrow down the location… Police provided a warning with their own Facebook post. From this information, Google maps helped us plot the danger path The next day the press (briefly) reported the event.
- 22. SlideShare LinkedIn Google NewsTwitter Searching as Strategic Exploration Searching for information is nonlinear and iterative, requiring evaluation of a range of information sources and mental flexibility to pursue alternate avenues.
- 25. • When building web sites students had challenges using both traditional and web based search tools, especially social networks (Delicious, YouTube, Flickr) (Cordes, 2013). • Comparing the library catalog, database, and search engine students felt the database more useful for performing academic tasks than the catalog or Google, but found Google easier to use overall (Cordes, 2014). • In a collaborative decision task, teams using a discussion process that supported member interdependence made better decisions and had more positive feelings about the work climate and procedures (Cordes, 2014). Sea of search…Smooth Sailing?
- 26. 5 things I want my kids (and colleagues) to know • Build future skills on the knowledge of the past • There is often more than one way to skin a cat • The truth can come in many colors • Skeptical is safe (if there is such a thing) • All information has value, depending on what your buying
Editor's Notes
- #3: Philosophy and concepts that form understanding of content and how it is processed. This impacts library instruction designed to help students develop skills, ability, and understanding to use information for academic and personal achievement. The way we investigate is changing, in part from avenues for creating and discussing everyday and discipline related information, and the form this knowledge takes. Approaches to research leading to new knowledge creation vary by need, circumstance, and type of inquiry. Sea change brings new needed behaviors/dispositions Key behaviors- persistence, adaptability, and flexibility, and recognition that ambiguity can be beneficial. Key concept-Critical thinking supports learning when lack of familiarity with new methods and approaches requires additional effort. Chess was the greatest fun. We were made to play properly in chess, he was a master of this game - he couldn’t bear to do anything else; but for all the other games he had entirely new rules. Enid Stevens Shawner, Cohen, Morton N. Lewis Carroll - Interviews & recollections, 1989. Expertise/fluid/automatic novel becomes normal but must fit context Chess-Chess was the greatest fun. We were made to play properly in chess, he was a master of this game - he couldn’t bear to do anything else; but for all the other games he had entirely new rules. Enid Stevens Shawyer Cohen, Morton N. Lewis Carroll - Interviews & recollections, 1989.
- #4: philosophy and concepts that form understanding of content and how it is processed. This impacts library instruction designed to help students develop skills, ability, and understanding to use information for academic and personal achievement. Bruner 1965 - Learning happens as a function of the activity, context and culture in which it occurs most often Incidental rather than deliberate. Extends beyond the academic world to include instances such as evidence and data collected by groups and individuals in communities and the public at large May also focus upon personal, professional, or societal needs, Primary sources, crowd sources Vehicle recall, my car, issues on my job related to safety, the responsibility of business to the public Differing perspectives across time, groups, and disciplines Hotel gone, flights higher, urban planning Formal Informal-Hotel Description/Hotel Reviews Description fine, but on given days maybe not desirable unless a fan
- #5: What should be examined? How closely? Convenience at the potential risk of incompleteness, the speed of information far greater than the ability/will of humans to be mindful. When is good enough, enough? Understand the problem and how to address it given need to find and apply information What is an authority? How does perspective differ between sources (connect the dots)? How does format (multiple), process (individual, collaborative) impact information work? Goals and the paths to reach them aren’t necessarily the same in the workplace as in academics? Engaging team members during research process Retrieving information using a variety of formats Finding patterns and making connections Exploring a topic thoroughly
- #6: A mindful approach to any activity has three characteristics the continuous creation of new categories openness to new information, and an implicit awareness of more than one perspective. Distinctions emerge and occur across the stage of inquiry New information and perspectives encountered during the process require valiadation Threshold concepts are a portals Opens up a new ways of thinking about something Transforms way of understanding and interpreting something needed to progress Transforms internal view of subject, landscape, or world view Transformation may be sudden or over a considerable time Transformation can prove troublesome. Transformation may represent how people ‘think’ in a discipline It can be argued that transformed understanding leads to a privileged or dominant view and therefore a contestable way of understanding something. Authority Is Constructed and Contextual Information Creation as a Process Information Has Value Research as Inquiry Scholarship as Conversation Searching as Strategic Exploration
- #7: Level of authority can vary with need, Context influences trust and belief (ie religion, political) What is the relationship between need and authority? Authority and context? Who/what is an authority? How does format fit? What sources should be examined? How closely? How good is good enough? How does perspective differ between sources? How does perspective change over time? What is our responsibility toward the truth?
- #9: Geoffrey Stone Clifford Nass Robin Good
- #12: Participants become real world researchers, creating content using new formats and technologies, bringing value to the information marketplace through the development and dissemination of contextually relevant experience.
- #13: Students defined the maning of of imporatnace and conveyed this through creation of content from experts becoming experts in the process.
- #14: Hashtags made things retrievable, not all showed, care was needed to be unique
- #15: consider research as open-ended exploration and engagement with information; appreciate that a question may appear to be simple but still disruptive and important to research; value intellectual curiosity in developing questions and learning new investigative methods; maintain an open mind and a critical stance; value persistence, adaptability, and flexibility and recognize that ambiguity can benefit the research process; seek multiple perspectives during information gathering and assessment; seek appropriate help when needed; follow ethical and legal guidelines in gathering and using information; demonstrate intellectual humility (i.e., recognize their own intellectual or experiential limitations).
- #16: The debate of student info skill began with commentary, years later a call still remains for empirical study, both positions grounded in strong beliefs from experience, professional focus, and later experiments arising in a number of disciplines, education, technology, information science, communications, media studies, psychology.
- #17: The crime and punishment exercise promotes critical thinking, balances thought on cultural perceptions of social issues in the past and today, raises arguments, and explores perceptions of multiple parties over time. Using digital technology, in this case the mind map, students collaborate on ideas, and conceptualizations of meanings.
- #19: The way we investigate is changing, in part from avenues for creating and discussing everyday and discipline related information, and the form this knowledge takes. Approaches to research leading to new knowledge creation vary by need, circumstance, and type of inquiry. Sea change brings new needed behaviors/dispositions Key behaviors- persistence, adaptability, and flexibility, and recognition that ambiguity can be beneficial. Key concept-Critical thinking supports learning when lack of familiarity with new methods and approaches requires additional effort. Chess was the greatest fun. We were made to play properly in chess, he was a master of this game - he couldn’t bear to do anything else; but for all the other games he had entirely new rules. Enid Stevens Shawner, Cohen, Morton N. Lewis Carroll - Interviews & recollections, 1989. Expertise/fluid/automatic novel becomes normal but must fit context Chess-Chess was the greatest fun. We were made to play properly in chess, he was a master of this game - he couldn’t bear to do anything else; but for all the other games he had entirely new rules. Enid Stevens Shawyer Cohen, Morton N. Lewis Carroll - Interviews & recollections, 1989.
- #20: Information possesses several dimensions of value, commodity, means of education, means to influence, means of negotiating and understanding the world. Legal and socioeconomic interests influence information. What is the value in the preceding slides? Academic, personal, what is vetted, what is acceptable? Information in business is worth the difference between the business’ bank account balance. Take the cash in the bank with the information, and subtract from that what it would have been without the information, and that’s the value. David Marc "Dave" Kreps (born 1950, New York) is a game theorist and economist and professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Research as Unquiry
- #21: BUILD VAILIDY TO AN OPEN ENDED CONTEXT-DIVERSE ELEMENT CONSTRCUT AUTHORITY Markham Nolan-Managing editor of Storyful, now at Vocativ First news agency created specifically for the social media age Developed editorial processes & technology to enable organisations to discover, validate & deliver the most newsworthy social media content
- #22: High Need / Low Risk High Need / High Risk Live in town, but not close to area In area, aware of incident, affected, at risk of harm Low Need / High Risk Low Need / Low Risk Person walking in area, unaware, in danger Distant friend, little concern for them, also live in Hali recall on car safe area Need-Location, risk, timely Context-critical, authority may be formal (police), and informal (citizens).
- #23: Sea of Searching Searching for information is often nonlinear and iterative, requiring the evaluation of a range of information sources and the mental flexibility to pursue alternate avenues as new understanding develops.
- #26: These are some challenges students have had in my research projects and courses. What have you encountered in your library? Your instruction! Connectivism-which emphasizes the role of social and cultural context. Connectivism is often associated with and proposes a perspective similar to Vygotsky's 'zone of proximal development' (ZPD), an idea later transposed into Engeström's (2001) Activity theory. Tools-Rules-Division of Labor-Object Oritation (activity), Subjects The zone of proximal development, often abbreviated as ZPD, is the difference between what a learner can do without help and what he or she can do with help.
- #27: Traditional information literacy applies to both academics and personal endeavors, although the tools, tactics and times will change There may be no one right answer, but there is often a best answer for a given situation In a rapidly changing information world the key to survival is to question, evaluate, and question again Knowing what you need, why you need it and where you can get it can mean the difference between success and failure.