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Margolin, S. & Hayden, W. (2015). Beyond Mechanics: Re-framing the Pedagogy and Development of Information Literacy Teaching Tools. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 41 (5), 602-612.
Summary
This article focuses on the debate around whether the internet has made research papers obsolete and how students should be trained to do research and retrieve and analyze information in light of the fact that so much information is so readily available in an instant on the internet.The authors argue that the process of research rather than the mechanics should be scaffolded for the learner and that students should be led to discover that research is a process of inquiry and discovery, not just collecting facts to prove a thesis. The subjects the authors were dealing with were first-year college students and although they do not seem well-prepared in information literacy skills, the faculty does not seem to be integrating those skills into their courses of instruction.
Evaluation
I thought this article gave some new and fresh insights into a new instructional approach to information literacy and would be useful for middle to high school and early college teachers and librarians. I wanted to see the Reading Toolkit the authors had created but there wasn't a direct link or screenshot so I did a search myself and was able to find the website since they said they were from Hunter College. here is the link to their website: http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/research-toolkit
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