Presentation with Trudi E. Jacobson at the

1. Changing Education: Strengths and Barriers
Promoting Radical Change in
Teaching Information and
Technology Literacies
Trudi E. Jacobson, M.L.S Thomas P. Mackey, Ph.D.
Distinguished Librarian Dean
University Libraries Center for Distance Learning
University at Albany Empire State College
SUNY SUNY
Monday, June 04, 2012 1

2. Horizon Report 2012
1. Mobile Apps
2. Tablet Computing
3. Game based learning
4. Learning Analytics
5. Gesture Based
Computing
6. The Internet of Things
http://www.nmc.org/publications/horizon-report-2012-higher-ed-edition
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3. Horizon Report 2012
“Digital media
literacy continues its
rise in importance as
a key skill in every
discipline and
profession.” (p. 6).
http://www.nmc.org/publications/horizon-report-2012-higher-ed-edition
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4. Horizon Report 2012
“Despite the widespread
agreement on the
importance of digital
media literacy, training
in the supporting skills
and techniques is rare in
teacher education and
non-existent in the
preparation of most
university faculty” (p. 6).
http://www.nmc.org/publications/horizon-report-2012-higher-ed-edition
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5. ACRL Standard Definition (1989)
• Determine the extent of information needed
• Access the needed information effectively and
efficiently
• Evaluate information and its sources critically
• Incorporate selected information into one’s knowledge
base
• Use information effectively to accomplish a specific
purpose
• Understand the economic, legal, and social issues
surrounding the use of information, and access and use
information ethically and legally
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency.cfm
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6. Media and Information Literacy (MIL)
“Information and media literacy enables
people to interpret and make informed
judgments as users of information and
media, as well as to become skillful
creators and producers of information
and media messages in their own right.”
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=15886&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
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8. Metaliteracy Transliteracy
• Metacognitive approach that • Transliteracy is defined as the
combines multiple literacies in ability to read, write, and
an integrated framework with communicate across multiple
an emphasis on producing and platforms
sharing information (Mackey (http://nlabnetworks.typepad.com/transli
teracy/)
and Jacobson, 2011)
• “It is not about learning text
• Knowledge acquisition, rather
literacy and visual literacy and
than simply skills
digital literacy in isolation from
acquisition, is an important
one another but about the
component
interaction among all these
literacies” (Ipri, 2010)
(http://crln.acrl.org/content/71/10/532.full)

9. Mackey and Jacobson, 2012
Figure by Roger Lipera
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10. Active Metaliterate Engagement
Basic IL Course:
• Actual creation of information
• Presentation of that information using a web-based
application
• Migration of individual paper-based research guide to
team-based guide using wiki or website
• Addition of data visualization/visual literacy component

11. Active Metaliterate Engagement
Advanced Topics Course: Social Media as
Information Sources
• Student suspicion of Twitter, blogs as information sources
• Increased emphasis on evaluation
• Team creation of remixes as final project
» Video, Impact of Twitter
» Physical book, Anonymity 2.0
» Facebook launch page, Mobile devices/social networking
subculture

12. Pedagogy and Web 2.0
Constructivism and the ACRL
Information Literacy Standards
• Complex and challenging learning environments
• Social negotiation and shared responsibility
• Multiple representations of content
• The understanding that knowledge is constructed
• Student-centered instruction
From: Wendell G. Johnson, “The Application of Learning Theory to Information Literacy,” College &
Undergraduate Libraries 14, no. 4 (2007): 103–120.

13. Student Use of Web 2.0 Applications
“Despite their reputation of being avid
computer users who are fluent with new
technologies, few students in our sample had
used a growing number of Web 2.0
applications within the past six months for
collaborating on course research assignments
and/or managing research tasks.”
(Project Information Literacy Progress Report: “Truth Be Told” | November 1,
2010 | Head and Eisenberg, p. 3)

14. Survey Instrument
• Survey Monkey
• 26 Questions
• Likert scale
• Some open-ended comments
• Library and Information Science faculty and
librarians (listservs, LinkedIn groups, colleagues)
• 85.5% librarians
• 551 started survey
• 361 completed survey (65.5%)
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15. Which of the following literacies are you
familiar with? (select all that apply)
N=413 15

16. Which of the following literacies are components of
information literacy? (select all that apply)
N=445 16

17. Which of the following literacy frameworks
are you familiar with? (select all that apply)
N=413 17

18. Which of the following literacies are important to include in
information literacy instruction? (select all that apply)
N=381 18

19. Which of the following are reasons for not including related
literacies in information literacy instruction?
(select all that apply)
N=377 19

20. Which of the following technologies do you require your
students to learn as part of your information literacy
instruction? (select all that apply)
N=251 20

21. How well prepared do you feel to teach new technology-
related material or information literacy concepts?
N=368 21

22. Does lack of knowledge or skills keep you from
teaching items you would like to include?
NO
YES
N=360 22

23. Does lack of knowledge or skills keep you from
teaching items you would like to include?
Open comments:
• “i find technology is moving so fast sometimes it
is hard to keep up”
• “More lack of confidence than lack of knowledge
- often feel students already have more expertise
in the technology (but they often don't know
what to do with it)”
• “When I hear about items I'm not proficient in, I
discuss them with my colleagues and we try to
figure out ways for as many of us who are
interested to incorporate them.”
N=96

24. Thomas P. Mackey, Ph.D. Trudi E. Jacobson, M.L.S
Dean Distinguished Librarian
Center for Distance Learning University Libraries
University at Albany
SUNY Empire State College
SUNY
Tom.Mackey@esc.edu TJacobson@uamail.albany.edu