LibGuides: Spartan Savvy: Integrative Model for Information Literacy: Information Has Value

Definition

Information Has Value

"Information possesses several dimensions of value, including as a commodity, as a means of education, as a means to influence, and as a means of negotiating and understanding the world. Legal and socioeconomic interests influence information production and dissemination."

Activities covering the Information Has Value concept:

5 Ws of Evaluation
Students will ask and answer questions about the characteristics of a source in order to critically evaluate it.
Connections between Information and Scholarship
Using one popular and one scholarly article, students will identify the information or outside sources used within each article and discuss the connections between information and scholarship.
Constructing An Argument
Using segments from different sources, students will reflect on how to use sources when constructing an argument.
Cost and Value of Information
Self paced tutorial that helps students "identify the characteristics of information, which contribute to its value".
Creator Perspective
In small groups, students are asked to develop "rules" for the use of something that they have created. After considering an information source they have used in an assignment, students will reflect on the source's rules of use and the perspective of the creator of that source.
Ethical Use of Sources
Students watch a video on plagiarism and then complete a worksheet covering examples of source use.
Hashtags and Headings: Mind Your Metadata
Discussion of hashtags and subject headings as metadata to help locate information.
Mapping a Topic
The class contributes to the creation of a concept map that shows how a variety of sources contribute to robust learning of a topic.
Responsibly Using Online Images
Students practice searching for and citing images found online.
The Scholarly Conversation: Reading & Applying Scholarly Research
Students learn how to read scholarly articles and how to use them as evidence for claims.
Social Justice in Information
Using clips from the “Just Google It”: Algorithms of Oppression video and searching activities, students are asked to "critically examine results of google image searches as an illustration of inequities". Students created a shared file with images and thoughts that represented what they learned.
What it is & How to cite it
Provided with a packet of sources, students determine the source format and create citations.
Why Cite?
Discussion of purpose and value of citing sources in academia.