Resources and information litercy
Code
722051379
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Formação ao Longo da Vida
Credits
10
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1 Respond to the increasing difficulty - broadly felt by those who are in more advanced academic and professional context - in relation to the identification, evaluation, selection, location and access to the most relevant and reliable information for their needs and objectives.
2. Provide students with the necessary skills to meet the different needs of information in the course of their research, enhancing contact with new sources of information and developing their critical view about those sources.
3. At the end students should be able to:
Identify and describe the major types of information sources, regardless of their format or medium;
Critically evaluate sources and information resources;
Produce, communicate and share information in a collaborative way.
Prerequisites
Not applicable
Subject matter
1. Informational literacy in the digital age
a. The transition from analogue to digital: opportunities and challenges
b. Global trends in emerging literacies
c. The \"Online Learner-Centered Experience\" model
2. Produce, communicate and share knowledge
a. How to become an \"independent learner\"
b. How to develop academic literacies
c. Identify problems and needs of knowledge
d. How to search and manage information resources
e. How to synthesize information and create new knowledge
f. How to communicate and share knowledge
3. Collaborative Web: from information literacy to transliteracy
a. The metaliteracy and the globalization of social networks
b. Producing and sharing information collaboratively
c. How to develop a model metaliteracy to promote learning, production and reproduction of knowledge
Bibliography
BADKE, W. - Research strategies: finding your way through the information fog. 3. New York: iUniverse, 2008.
BOBISH, G.; Jacobson, T., eds. - The Information Literacy Users Guide an Open, Online Textbook. Geneseo: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2014. ISBN 978-0-98972-262-9.
GODWIN, P.; PARKER, J., ed. lit. - Information literacy beyond Library 2.0. London: Facet Publishing, 2012. ISBN 978-1-85604-762-3.
KAPLOWITZ, J. R. - Transforming information literacy instruction using learner-centered teaching. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2012. ISBN 978-1-85604-835-4.
THOMAS, S.; JOSEPH, C.; LACCETTI, J.; MASON, B.; MILLS, S.; PERRIL, S.; PULLINGER, K. - Transliteracy: Crossing Divides. First Monday; 12 (12 de Dezembro de 2007). http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2060.
Teaching method
Practical teaching framed, when necessary, by theoretical lectures. The learning will be based on individual and group exercises for practical application of the concepts and methods exposed. Audiovisual media will be used whenever necessary, access and exploration of information in digital format will be privileged.
Evaluation method
Students will be assessed through a project work (60% of final quotation) and a classroom written test at the end of the semester (40% of final quotation).