Sample IL Curriculum IL into the Curriculum Workshop Day 3 Session 3.3 -3.4 hand out

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Sample IL CurriculumIL into the Curriculum
Workshop Day 3 Session 3.3 -3.4 hand out
Strand 4 Mapping and evaluating the information landscape
Strand content Learning outcomes Example activities Example assessment
Identify trusted sources Select appropriate resources for your assignment, discriminating between good quality academic sources and other sources Develop evaluative criteria for recognizing and selecting trustworthy sources of academic quality in your discipline Students explore a number of sources - for instance real and spoof websites (e.g. http//www.dhmo.org/) - and consider how they identify trustworthy sources Compare a subject entry in Wikipedia with an entry in a non-current encyclopedia and discuss their relative value Examine monographs, journals, reports and other formats Devise a list of criteria for assessing trustworthiness and credibility of source formats Students locate a book, a journal article and a website not on their reading list and consider in pairs the relative value of what they have found to their assignment
Excerpt from A new curriculum for Information
Literacy, ARCADIA Project, Cambridge University
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