IL modules offered via the campus LMS, embedded in specific courses
IL assessment
Assignments that require students to complete a reference appointment
The need for more holistic integration of IL instruction throughout the curriculum rather than just at the beginning (1st-year writing courses) and the end (capstone courses).
Subject faculty's misunderstanding of students' IL skill level. Poor IL skills often attributed to laziness rather than genuine lack of IL.
ChatGPT/AI
How do we engage with it?
How can we help our faculty colleagues navigate the new information terrain
Outreach possibilities - offer resources for understanding/using AI, leverage this connection into further discussion of IL for both faculty and students
Idea for instruction - include peer-review with citation evaluation as part of the writing process.
The challenges of crafting institutional policy regarding AI
Idea for instruction - supply a fixed set of sources and have students focus on civil discourse, peer-review, and accurately representing the information from the sources in the synthesis process.
Ways to take advantage of AI as an instructor - examples: have AI generate rubrics, lesson plans, assignment suggestions. Canva will generate presentations.
At the 2019 Information Literacy Interest Group Meeting at the ACL Conference, we had small group discussions. This document is a compilation of the notes from those discussions.
