Lara Sibley (Marist/host)
- Introduced concept of “Backward Design” - what are the “big ideas” of library instruction. What should students remember long after instruction concludes?
- Reference to: Mills, J., Wiley, C., & Williams, J. (2019). “This is what learning looks like!”: Backward design and the framework in first year writing. Portal: Libraries & the Academy, 19(1), 155-175. https://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2019.0008
- Complexity of research v. just doing homework or an assignment
- How to get to the course guide
Community college librarian:
- Information literacy as a life skill
Academic librarian:
- Understanding sources and information can come from AI
- Trying to understand what is real and fact-checking has become harder
- Fact-check all sources
Will AI make people more skeptical in a good way or more suspicious in a bad way?
Host:
Academic Librarian:
- Are students unaccustomed to traditional news/newspapers as news sources outside of library instruction?
Academic Librarian:
- Students get news through TikTok, where information is very targeted to individual users
- Telling students that they can get through news paywalls in the library’s databases and to read beyond titles and headlines
Community College Librarian:
- Do people know the difference between content on the platforms where they found them and the actual sources: “I found it on EBSCO/Facebook”
Academic Librarian:
- “Digital natives” don’t always fully understand how information is created and disseminated
Community College Librarian:
- Teaching students whom information is targeting, understanding there is an algorithm or motivation of those producing information, the “packaging of information”
Academic Librarian:
- Not just the information life cycle, but the information creation life cycle
- Arc of creation: who creates it, how is it delivered, who is the intended audience?
Academic Librarian:
- Should more advanced students (like nurses) be given some kind of “big ideas” spiel? Is it reinforced organically while working on harder research questions with a librarian?
Community College Librarian:
- Time is a big issue when trying to teach critical thinking and evaluating content; the usual hour or so is inadequate
- “The world is word”
- ChatGPT is actually good for developing discussion questions
All:
- Unanswered questions presented by any one source and getting to the why