" The best way to predict your future is to
create it." ~Peter Drucker
EP004
Information Literacy &
Research Skills
Semester 1, 2012
Lecturer: Jenny Jongste
Week 2 / Lecture 1
Overview
Unit Outline and Expectations
Email, blackboard and blog
What is information literacy?
“Scavenger Hunt”
The “Research Cycle”
Directed Study = homework
Unit Outline and
Expectations
Print and REFER to unit outline REGULARLY for:
Contact information
Jenny Jongste
Email: jenny.jongste@nd.edu.au
mobile: 0407 389 042
Set goals and study with the unit outcomes
University regulations and expectations
Weekly prep and revision using program outline
Preparation and completion of assessments
Finding resources that will help consolidate and
extend information literacy and research skills
Email and Blackboard
CHECK EMAIL REGULARY = HEART OF
STUDY
Class updates, tasks on blackboard, changes
BLACKBOARD = STUDY LIFELINE
Lectures, readings, task sheets,
homework/revision tasks
WIKI = LEARNING COMMUNITY
Shared work, ideas and study tasks
Agreements
YOU – email is the easiest. Text /call in emergencies or if
too complicated to email.
Inform me of problems, absences, sickness, questions.
Always inform me ASAP!
ASK FOR HELP!
ME
Will reply within 24 hours during weekdays (unless
problem arises).
Over the weekend will reply within 48 hours (unless
problem arises).
Will make time to see you.
Outcomes of Lecture
Students will be able to:
Conduct a Google search to find a
definition of “information literacy”
Locate the keywords and formulate
their own definition of information
literacy.
Carry out first 3 steps of research cycle
What is Information Literacy?
1. Knowing when you need information:
EP004 and EP002/003
2. How to find it: EP004
3. Evaluate it: EP004
4. Use it effectively: EP006
5. Deliver it in a communication: EP006 and
EP002/EP003
Scavenger Hunt
Work in pairs
Use Google to find a definition of information literacy
Record the keywords you used and how many results
came up with each search
Decide on the best definition
Pairs will report which keywords came up with the best
results and the best definition they found
Information Literacy Wordle
In pairs choose 3 words that you think
best describes what information literacy
is.
http://www.wordle.net/
The Research Cycle
Analyse
the
question
Communicate
findings
Brainstorm the
topic
Evaluate the
information
Establish
keywords
Search
What links can you see between information literacy and
the research cycle?
Analyse The Question
Describe the effects that alcohol advertising
has on adolescents.
•
Operative words –tells you what to do
•
Keywords – the main ideas and concepts
•
Limiters - limits the idea/concept to a
particular group, time, place or age.
Brainstorm The Topic
Describe the effects that alcohol
advertising has on adolescents.
Always start with “what you know”.
Class brainstorm on topic.
How does this help you?
Establish Keywords
Describe the effects that alcohol advertising has
on adolescents.
Keywords are the main ideas and concepts of
the question
Add keywords from brainstorm
Concept 1
Concept 2
Effects
Alcohol
advertising
Concept 3
Limiter
Adolescents
1st Three Steps of Research
Cycle
Why are these 3 steps important?
How does this help you?
Your Turn:
“Youth violence has increased as a result of violent
movies and the internet in the 21st Century.” Choose
and argument for or against this statement.
Work in pairs to carry out the first 3 steps of the
research cycle.
Summary
List three things that you learnt, remembered or
understood more clearly from todays session.
Directed Study (homework)
Create a slide that illustrates the relationship
between “information literacy and the research
cycle”.
Email to lecturer: jenny.jongste@nd.edu.au