The new curriculum for information literacyJane Secker, LSE

BLA Conference, 10th July 2014

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What is A New Curriculum for Information Literacy (ANCIL)?

What IS information literacy and how does it improve the student experience?

What is the librarian’s role?

Evolution of ANCIL

Develop a new, revolutionary curriculum

for information literacy in a digital age

Evolution of ANCIL

Develop a new, revolutionary curriculum

for information literacy in a digital age

Strategies for implementing the

curriculum and resources to

support it

Evolution of ANCIL

Understand the needs of undergraduates entering HE over the coming 5 years

Map the current landscape of information literacy

Develop a practical curriculum and supporting resources

Develop a new, revolutionary curriculum

for information literacy in a digital age

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Milestones and deadlines

Literature review/catch up - 6-9th May and ongoingBest practice review - 6th-13th May and ongoingExpert consultation: pilot - 13th MayExpert consultation: interviews - 16th-27th MayFirst draft outline - 8th JunePlan next stage and reviseExpert consultation workshop: during week of 13th-20th June Final curriculum, evidence toolkit, framework review and literature review by 8th July

The expert consultation

Format and structure of the curriculum

Timing of the interventions Teaching style and the

method of delivery Role of audits and

assessment Marketing and promotion Key drivers

and barriers to implementation

Considerations around technology

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Technology

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Project outputs

Curriculum Expert consultation report Theoretical background

report Concept diagrams Information literacy

definition Advocacy video Lesson planning tool

Resource wiki Institutional audit tools Implementation

strategies report Information literacy first

aid model Rethinking Information

Literacy

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What IS information literacy? How does it improve the student experience?

Why does this still matter?

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Information literacy is complex

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A matter of perspective

Information literacy and learning development

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Information literacy and employability

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Information literacy and lifelong learning

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What is the librarian’s role?

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WRONG!!

“ ... the main gap I am finding is with regards to critical and holistic

thinking. There seems to be a teach‐to‐test culture which focuses on

circumscribing knowledge into manageable boxes ... ”

(ANCIL Expert Consultation Report, 2011)

Joining up support

Embedding in the curriculum

Challenging perceptions ….

“… if the teachers, whether they’re school or university teachers, don’t have the same view of IL that we do, it’s always going to be [about] the skills. And the

skills are fine but anybody can teach the skills; it’s teaching the changing attitude and the different approach that I think

has to come from the teachers.”

(ANCIL Expert Consultation Report, 2011)

Credibility and capability

Qualifications and staff development

Student as partners

“What I work with is the information that’s still inside people’s heads,

that’s not yet structured or fully articulated, that’s the result of the

creative encounter between an individual and a learning context.”

(The Mongoose Librarian, 2013)

Thank you!

j.secker@lse.ac.uk / @jsecker

http://newcurriculum.wordpress.com