IPAL Information Literacy Interest Group Spring Conference 2016 Recap

Twenty-three attended the Information Literacy Interest Group session held March 19, 2016 at Grand View University in Des Moines. We began with brief introductions followed by a guided reflection on teaching characteristics and non-traditional learning objects or experiences based on Char Booth’s Reflective teaching, effective learning: Instructional literacy for library educators. Individuals articulated influential instructors from their past or peer group and the attributes they most admire or wish to emulate in their own teaching. Participants also identified three memorable non-classroom-based learning experiences that connected them with a meaningful way to learn. That prompted a lively small-group discussion.

Kristy Raine provided an instruction example that modeled connecting instruction and outcomes to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. The small groups then reconvened to discuss and brainstorm how they may apply the Framework and modify their current instruction. Each small group recorded their Framework brainstorming, which is shared below.

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Below are the materials used or created during the event.

Slides/Prompts:

Reflective Teaching Activity prompts/chart:


Kristy Raine's lesson example connecting instruction and outcomes to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education:

Be a Volkswagen Detective: Show Me What You Know:

Defeat Devices and Mistakes: The Emissions Scandal and the Future of Volkswagen:

ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education Pocket Guide:


Framework "Solution or Sympathy" group brainstorming:
Group 1


Group 2


Group 3


Group 4


Group 5