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Digital & Information Literacy @ FIT

Create to Learn: Instructional Practices that Advance Digital Literacy Competencies

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Online with the faculty of Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)

 

PRESENTER: Renee Hobbs

 

This lively program offers a rationale for why information literacy pedagogy is important for developing students’ critical thinking, communication, and creativity, followed by 3 – 5 examples of how faculty can layer in information literacy and digital literacy instructional practices in ways that can be adapted to any subject area, issue, or topic. This session uses the Access, Analyze, Create, Reflect, Act model developed by Renee Hobbs in Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action. Participants will get a chance to practice some activities that will be modelled, and small group and large group discussion plus time for Q&A helps faculty increase their motivation and confidence to implement new activities.

 

Putting the Information Literacy Framework in Action in Your Classroom

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Online with the faculty of Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)

 

PRESENTER: Renee Hobbs

 

This session demonstrates more examples of how faculty can layer in digital literacy and information literacy instructional practices in ways that can be adapted to any subject area, issue, or topic. This session uses the ACRL Framework that advances students’ ability to understand core principles including:

  • Search as strategic exploration,
  • Research as inquiry, 
  • Scholarship as conversation, and
  • Information creation is a process. 

Participants will get a chance to practice some activities that will be modelled, and small group and large group discussion plus time for Q&A helps faculty increase their motivation and confidence to implement new activities.