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Apply Information: Incorporation Into Your Class
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Information Competence Skill:
The information literate student acknowledges the use of information sources in communicating the product or performance.
Ways to Incorporate this skill into your Curriculum:
- Developing assignments which take into account that some topics may require the use of a variety of information types or formats (e.g. interviews, statistical sources, popular materials or scholarly materials)
- Assignments which require students to use citation methods
- Require that students learn a particular style manual.
- Select a style manual for student research as a department.
Research Assignment
Information Competence Skill:
- Students must recognize whether research meets requirements of assignment
Ways to incorporate this skill into Research Assignments
- Require a review of topics mid-way to due date. Asks students to report why they modified their initial research statement.
- Asks students to provide opinions on both sides of their topics in their research assignments.
- Asks students to research and deconstruct a controversial topic in Black Studies.
- Test students on their analysis of controversial topics.
Information Competence Skill:
The information literate student acknowledges the use of information sources in communicating the product or performance.
Ways to incorporate this skill into Research Assignments
- Require that students learn to cite electronic sources.
- Provide a handout with example of various citations for various sources.
- Provide a list of WEB links to electronic style manuals.
- Approving research topics before students begin assignments
- Breaking a research assignments into parts and one component would be providing an annotated bibliography of sources the student has found and has decided to include in the research project.
Example of skills by college level
Freshman – Uses a range of sources and selects appropriate documentation style to cite sources.
Sophomore –
Understands why it is important to document sources and cite authors.Junior – Maintains a journal or logs activities to describe the process of finding, evaluating and applying information for course assignment.
Seniors – Integrates information from a variety of sources; determines the most effective means of presentation or communication medium and format that best supports the purpose and audience.
Community Service:
Information Competence Skill:
The information literate student understands many of the ethical, legal and
socio-economic issues surrounding information and information technology.
Ways to Incorporate this skill into Research Assignments
- When applicable requiring students to volunteer in a service learning environment to use the information they have acquired in a real-life setting.
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