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Information Literacy vs. Transliteracy:
Lessons for Library Instruction
Lane Wilkinson “Why Transliteracy?” panel
New Orleans - June 25, 2011
Information Literacy vs. Transliteracy:
Lessons for Library Instruction
Three Goals What’s the difference? How is transliteracy relevant? Lessons we can learn.
difference What is the difference
between transliteracy and information literacy?
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literacy Reading and writing?
Clicking and typing?
literacy
Posting and hosting?
literacy
Is there a common thread?
Yes
literacy
Literacy is our way of accessing the flow of
information.
literacy
Literacy is a means for encoding and
decoding that information.
literacy
We encode and decode information in order to
communicate.
literacy
Literacy is about communication
literacy
Literacy is the ability to communicate
meaning by encoding and decoding information.
literacy
(sort of)
literacy
This is literacy in the descriptive sense.
literacy
Sometimes we talk about literacy in an evaluative sense.
literacy
We talk about the skills needed to evaluate
information.
literacy
Health literacy
literacy
Scientific literacy
literacy
Media literacy
literacy
Critical literacy
…and beyond
literacy
Each of these senses of literacy are neutral with respect to specific media
literacy
They are about evaluating information,
not communicating information
literacy
Isn’t it just
splitting hairs?
How is this relevant?
communicate Print
Orality Signing
Computer Visual Digital
literacy
By Subject Health
Scientific Economic
&c.
Print Orality Signing
Computer Visual Digital
communicate evaluate By Concept
Critical Media
Cultural &c.
literacy
By Subject Health
Scientific Economic
&c.
Print Orality Signing
Computer Visual Digital
communicate evaluate By Concept
Critical Media
Cultural &c.
literacy
By Subject Health
Scientific Economic
&c.
evaluate By Concept
Critical Media
Cultural &c.
This is information
literacy
literacy
Print Orality Signing
Computer Visual Digital
communicate This is not
information literacy
literacy
Print Orality Signing
Computer Visual Digital
communicate This is
transliteracy
literacy
trans-
literacy
information
literacy
Transliteracy addresses the way we communicate information across multiple media
Information literacy addresses the way we evaluate information
using multiple skills
Is library instruction about
evaluation or communication?
relevance How is transliteracy relevant
to library instruction?
relevance Our students
have grown up immersed in information
relevance
They don’t just read and write
relevance They upload,
download, tweet, like, and text.
relevance
They communicate information
relevance But they hit a wall in the library
relevance They see the library as different…
relevance …and therefore inaccessible
relevance The library is out of their network
relevance
They want to communicate…
relevance
…what do we want?
What are we doing to make the
library part of their network?
transliteracy What lessons can
transliteracy teach us?
transliteracy Communication is distributed across
information sources
information Information flows all around us
information Literacy is how we interact with that
information
information
Multiple ways to interact
information
Multiple ways to interact
information The library is not alone
information There are other information sources out there.
information Show your students that the library
offers another way of communicating
transliteracy Information
resources don’t stand alone, they
interact
interaction
We tend to teach the differences
interaction
Popular vs. Scholarly
interaction
Wikipedia vs. Experts
interaction
Print vs. Digital
interaction
The Library vs. Google
interaction
The Library vs. Google
interaction
We forget that though there are differences…
interaction
…that can be a good thing.
interaction
Different information sources play different roles in research…so teach them
interaction
Teach the interaction, not the differences
interaction Help them make the connection
interaction Bobish, G. (2011). Participation and pedagogy: connecting the social web to ACRL learning outcomes. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 37(1), 54-63.
transliteracy
Think in terms of transferable skills
transfer Using a range of
media is just multiple literacies
transfer Transliteracy is
about combining and moving across a
range of media
transfer Moving across
literacies requires more than just multiple skills
transfer Moving across
literacies requires skills that can adjust
and transfer
transfer
transfer
The concept of mental models
Holman, L. (2011). Millennial students’ mental models of search: implications for academic librarians and database developers. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 37(1), 19-27.
transfer
Mapping meaning and skills across media and tools.
Holman, L. (2011). Millennial students’ mental models of search: implications for academic librarians and database developers. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 37(1), 19-27.
transfer
transfer
Finding keywords
The big picture
Current research
The conversation
Metaphor & design
transliteracy
The takeaway
transliteracy
What can you take back to your instruction
program?
transliteracy Think about communication
Teach how information sources interact
Look for skills that will transfer
transliteracy Thanks!
Lane Wilkinson
Univ. of Tennessee at Chattanooga
flavors.me/wilk
transliteracy