information literacy

If you build workshops, they still might not come: Notes on a not-so-successful community initiative

I first heard about The Second Chance Foundation from a segment on CBC Radio’s Sunday Edition in 2017. This interview prompted me to reach out to Bev because I knew that this was an organization I wanted to be involved in. We determined, based on her clients’ needs and my expertise, that I would offer introductory internet skills workshops focusing on information literacy.

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Taking responsibility: A single source may be CRAP when talking about governance

In this third installment, we look at the CRAP test, a method for thinking critically about information and sources, and then use it to unpack Diane Francis’s within wider debates in Aboriginal law and Indigenous critical theory.

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Consider the source: How to spot fake news

“Fake news” has become a buzzword of late but generally refers to inaccurate information of some kind—whether propaganda, pseudo-science, misinformation, or disinformation.

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Taking responsibility: An information-seeking journey to understanding Indigenous-federal relations

Unpacking an "abrogation of responsibility" by looking at governance and into the tensions between the Indian Act and rights created under both the Constitution of Canada and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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Bridge between: The 2019 OCULA Spring Conference

OCULA members, along with volunteers from the Ontario School Libraries Association, collaborated to present their annual spring conference. This year, the conference focused on teaching information literacy skills to students entering college and university.

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For-credit IL courses: Do you teach one?

If you are (or have been) participating in a for-credit IL course at a Canadian university or college, we’d love to hear from you.

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For-credit IL courses: Do you teach one?

Academic librarians teach one-shot information literacy (IL) sessions but some of us deliver for-credit IL courses.

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Language and power in the academic library classroom

Language is an enactment of power. What it means to make choices on what I say and how I say it, affects those in the classrooms I teach in.

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Powerful IL partnerships: Learning commons support for marginalized subjects

I like to think of the educational and health care systems in Ontario as being similar to some extent: teachers are the family doctors…

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Play your cards right! Designing game-based information literacy

Game-based learning has been around since the beginning of time … don’t you think? As kids, we learn by playing and as adults we…

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Violent Conflict: Public Sources of Data and Analysis

You hardly have to log in to your computer, turn on the news, listen to the radio or talk to a neighbour to get…

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Developing research skills modules for Aboriginal undergrads

Research interest To explore how ideas about information seeking, information literacy and culturally responsive teaching can inform the design of instruction programs to meet…

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OCULA Lightning Strikes Talks 2016

The OCULA Lightning Strikes Student Award is an exciting opportunity for LIS students to participate in the annual OLA Super Conference. Each year, six…

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