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Standards must (based on recommendations from previous task force):
• be simplified for readily understood and for greater adoption and be suitable for all audiences
• get rid of library jargon
• include affective, emotional learning outcomes in addtion to cognitive focus (attitudes, motivation, valuing what is being learned, )
• acknowledge complementary literacies (meta literacy, digital, media, visual, etc...and encompassed under IL umbrella)
• move beyond implicit focus on format
• address role of students as content creators
• address the role of students as content curators
• recognize the different abilities and dispositions that go along with students as creators and curators
• provide continuity with the American Assoc of School Librarians' Stds for the 21st century learner
New Model will:
• provide holistic approahc approach to IL for higher ed community
• not designed only for librarian use
• acknowlede abilites, knowledge and motivation surrounding IL are critical for college students in today's decentralized info envt
• focus on the two elements of metaliteracy and threshold concepts (metaliteracy includes information skills, collaborative production, and sharing of information in a digital environment. social media environments are free flowing, look up four domains)
• underscore the critical need for faculty....
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Q & A
-other literacies? financial, cultural?,
- do they have a blog? will do in the future
- committee membership. There are non librarians on the task force
- they have to talked to faculty (about threshold concepts - Trudi did), but not sure if other members have. they were mum on student feedback.
- aiming more for a toolkit -- with examples of applications at different concepts and levels, but currently looking at simplified plan for now
- looking at sandbox system to share how people are sharing/idea exchange area
- operationalizing standars standards will depend on the institution-- sharing ideas, but everyone's situation is different...
- working with accreditation agencies... yes, they have someon someone working on outreach..
- skills vs cogntive cognitive aspects of things.... interest in teh the threshold conpcetscooncepts, less focus on skills, and more on all -encompassing, rather than individual skills. thinking more of practices, rather than skills because that implies a higher level and more generic approach.
- visual literacy -- using metaliteracy - not addreshing addresing each literacy, but a generic on abilities and understandings more universal, not the formats. ..Recognizing that some might be complementary and others may not. Concept of needing a boundary as there are so many literacies out there
- yes, discussed the INFO LIT term -- they have not spending a lot of time thinking about an alternate term. ...Suggested they might try to better define the term information literacy