Workshops
Don’t Put Your Cell Phone Away!: Meeting Students Where They Are
Workshop Presentation Susan Engel, Karen Wenz, Suzanne Schlangen, Margaret Glazer
Adapt the way you teach to match the way learners interact with instructional materials in the 21st century using smartphone technology. Use learning theories, the latest cognitive research, and effective practices to guide you in meeting students where they are. Self-Determination Theory (SDT) is a theory of motivation that uses the concepts of autonomy, mastery, and relatedness to promote student motivation. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a flexible course design framework that accommodates individual student needs in learning. Recent cognitive research indicates testing, learning in chunks, and changing up topics and the study environment all facilitate student learning and material retention. You will learn how to design courses using evidence-based methods and integrate mobile learning to motivate your students and take advantage of the ways students best learn and retain information. We connect the latest teaching and learning research to practical application in developing not only learning materials, but also learning experiences. During this interactive workshop participants will build flashcards, contact students via text message and send docs and photos, take quizzes, do discussions, track deadlines all using free Smartphone apps. Participants learn how to leverage LMS apps and other technology to facilitate mobile learning anywhere, anytime.
Comics, Hip Hop, and Information Literacy: Critical Pedagogies for Student Empowerment
Workshop Presentation Jennifer Brown, Sofia Leung
Traditional information literacy workshops delivered by librarians working in higher education often focus on providing rote demonstrations of academic databases; these showcase how students might access content to aid their research assignment, but this teaching fails to move beyond one-dimensional engagement, leaving little room for students to critically analyze the production and dissemination of knowledge at the sociocultural level. These traditional lesson plans hinder students from understanding their role in the research lifecycle at large. This session will highlight the ways in which librarians can deliver information literacy workshops that embrace “critical pedagogy” practices while actively empowering students to see themselves reflected in the knowledge creation process. This workshop will open with a role playing activity that puts the participants in a student mindset. They will work in small groups to create a collaborative zine, using pop culture frameworks, that delve into knowledge construction, power, authority, privilege, and access to information sources. Participants will then end with a think-pair-share activity, allowing them to leave with instructional design best practices and a list of concrete ideas on how to partner with librarians at their institution to deliver or support similar workshops.
