Information Literacy Teaching Resources

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. -ACRL

Knowledge Practices

Learners who are developing their information literate abilities

• cite the contributing work of others in their own information production;
• contribute to scholarly conversation at an appropriate level, such as local online community, guided discussion, undergraduate research journal, conference presentation/poster session;
• identify barriers to entering scholarly conversation via various venues;
• critically evaluate contributions made by others in participatory information environments;
• identify the contribution that particular articles, books, and other scholarly pieces make to disciplinary knowledge;
• summarize the changes in scholarly perspective over time on a particular topic within a specific discipline;
• recognize that a given scholarly work may not represent the only or even the majority perspective on the issue.

Dispositions

Learners who are developing their information literate abilities

• recognize they are often entering into an ongoing scholarly conversation and not a finished conversation;
• seek out conversations taking place in their research area;
• see themselves as contributors to scholarship rather than only consumers of it;
• recognize that scholarly conversations take place in various venues;
• suspend judgment on the value of a particular piece of scholarship until the larger context for the scholarly conversation is better understood;
• understand the responsibility that comes with entering the conversation through participatory channels;
• value user-generated content and evaluate contributions made by others;
• recognize that systems privilege authorities and that not having a fluency in the language and process of a discipline disempowers their ability to participate and engage.

       Knowledge Practices:

• Cite the contributing work of others in their own information production

• Critically evaluate contributions made by others in participatory information environments

• Identify the contribution that particular articles, books, and other scholarly pieces make to disciplinary knowledge

       Knowledge Practices:

• Cite the contributing work of others in their own information production

• Identify the contribution that particular articles, books, and other scholarly pieces make to disciplinary knowledge

• Recognize that a given scholarly work may not represent the only or even the majority perspective on the issue

  Knowledge Practices:

• Critically evaluate contributions made by others in participatory information environments;

• Identify the contribution that particular articles, books, and other scholarly pieces make to disciplinary knowledge

• Recognize that a given scholarly work may not represent the only or even the majority perspective on the issue