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Dear colleagues,
In partnership with Library Juice, a new PD opportunity for instruction librarians and anyone else fascinated by the times in which we live and teach. Please feel free to forward as appropriate.
-Meg Raven
Begin announcement:
In mid-October Andrea Baer is offering a new online professional development course, Information
Literacy in Politically Polarized Times. This is the first course to be offered through Inquiring Teachers, a new business for instruction librarian professional
development. All courses are listed at https://inquiringteachers.com/courses.
Below are a short description of the course and of Inquiring Teachers and its partnership with Library Juice Academy. Please feel free to send inquiries to [log in to unmask].
Thank you!
All best,
Andrea Baer
Information Literacy in Politically Polarized Times
Duration: 4 weeks
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Price: US $175
In Brief: This course is one opening for librarians and fellow educators to reflect together on the role information literacy education at
this current polarized moment, the strengths and limitations of our current pedagogical practices, and new possibilities for our instructional work.
Learning outcomes:
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Reflect on current sociopolitical and sociotechnical environments and their implications for information literacy education (e.g., political polarization; the online spread of misinformation; information
silos and echo chambers; motivated reasoning; efforts to strengthen civic dialogue and engagement).
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Become familiar with research on the relationship between social identity, beliefs, and information behaviors and consider its implications for information literacy education.
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Examine various pedagogical responses to related information literacy skills (e.g., source evaluation, online reading strategies, debiasing).
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Develop an instruction activity that encourages more critical engagement with information and that addresses a pedagogical concern related to the current sociopolitical climate.
Full course description: https://inquiringteachers.com/courses/information-literacy-in-politically-polarized-times/
About Inquiring Teachers: Inquiring Teachers works from an understanding of teaching and learning as at once social and personal, a process
shaped by our unique experiences and backgrounds as well as our local and global contexts. This professional development is unique in its emphasis on reflection and community and in its integration of learning research, accessible theory, and everyday teaching
practice. To foster this environment, classes are small (no more than 15 people) and all participants are given ongoing personalized and detailed feedback.
Partnership with Library Juice Academy: Inquiring Teachers partners with Library Juice Academy to support its Certificate
in Library Instruction. All Inquiring Teachers courses count as electives for the certificate.
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Meg Raven
Coordinator of Collections
Liaison Librarian for the Sciences
Mount Saint Vincent University Library
Halifax, NS, B3M 2J6
T: 902-457-6403
F: 902-457-6445