Frederick, Lauren
Davis, H.M. (2002). Information literacy modules as an integral component
of a K-12 teacher preparation program: a librarian/faculty partnership. Journal
of Library Administration, 37.
Summary:
This article discusses Rio Salado College’s K-12 teacher
preparation program and how they use a series of required information literary
modules in order to educate their students. The advantage to this approach
is that the information literacy skills incorporated as part of the learning
for students preparing to become K-12 teachers . This lesson evolved into
six required modules incorporated into the six core classes of the teacher
preparation program. With the modules included in the required courses, “students
received their information literacy skills training as an integral part of
their course content, rather than as a separate ‘library’ piece. It would
then become a skill set that they, in turn, could impart to their students.
The six modules are:
1. An Introduction to Information Literacy, Online Catalogs
and E-Books
2. Features of Electronic Databases
3. Electronic Newspaper Databases
4. ERIC and AP Photo Archive
5. Searching and Evaluating Web Sites
6. Copyright and Plagiarism
The faculty and the librarian collaborated heavily in constructing
each of these modules to create assignments that related to the course content
of the K-12 teacher preparation program.
Evaluation:
This article provided some good ideas as to how to incorporate 21st century
learning into a teacher prep program, and I thought htat the modules they went
on to teach were very helpful, especially when learning how to best conduct
research. In each case, the students were required to proceed through online
instruction, which taught the information literacy concepts and then the
specifics behind each process or database, and then to perform structured
searches, which were designed to mesh with content covered in the particular
course in which the module appeared.
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