Jo Angela Oehrli – författare

Busy academic librarians looking for reliable, research-supported techniques that they can put into practice immediately will find them in this hands-on guide for information literacy instruction.When you stand alone in front of the class, being in command of your content is only the first step. Knowing how to engage students' participation in ways that foster "ownership" ensures that learning is both active and lasting. In this guide, Oehrli shares tried and tested techniques honed from 20 years of practice in both traditional and nontraditional settings. Drawing from educational research, she applies these techniques to the learner-centered teaching of information literacy topics. In this book, which is organized for quick access to techniques at your point of need, you will learn:how to use guiding principles to shape your personal philosophy of teaching;ways to address the uneven power dynamics of a classroom;5 basic questions to guide your preparation for a class;pointers for communicating with students in the language of the ACRL Framework;simple and subtle ways to build rapport with students;real-world applications of education research concepts such as Keller's ARCS theory of motivation;metacognitive techniques that foster student ownership of learning;other tips for asking good discussion questions and how to use the think/pair/share method to encourage discussion;techniques for defusing distraction in the classroom through proximity, pivoting, and pausing; andinteractive methods to uncover students' prior knowledge in research.

Creating Data Literate Students provides high school librarians and educatorswith foundational domain knowledge to teach a new subset of informationliteracy skills — data and statistical literacy, including: statistics and data comprehension; data as argument; and data visualization.Data — both raw and displayed in visualizations — can clarify or confuse,confirm or deny, persuade or deter. Students often learn that numbers areobjective, though data in the real world is rarely so. In fact, visualized data —even from authoritative sources — can sometimes be anything but objective.Librarians and classroom educators need to be as fluent with quantitativedata as they are with text in order to support high schoolers as they engagewith data in formal and informal settings. We asked contributors to thisvolume — experts in high school curriculum, information literacy and/ordata literacy — to explore the intersections between data and curriculumand identify high-impact strategies for demystifying data for educators andstudents alike.

Knowing how to recognize the role data plays in our lives is critical to navigating today’s complex world. In this volume, you’ll find two kinds of professional development tools to support that growth. Part I contains pre-made professional development via links to webinars from the 2016 and 2017 4T Virtual Conference on Data Literacy, along with discussion questions and activities that can animate conversations around data in your school. Part II explores data “in the wild” with case studies pulled from the headlines, along with provocative discussion questions, professionals and students alike can explore multiple perspectives at play with Big Data, data privacy, personal data management, ethical data use, and citizen science.