Chapter 18 Instructor Supplement:
Teaching Users: Information and Technology Literacy Instruction

Chapter 18 Learning Objectives

After completing this chapter, readers should have a better understanding of:

• how information literacy has become a critical component in the modern world;

• how the behaviors accompanying information literacy impact individuals across every demographic; and,

• the role of information professionals as the facilitators of information literacy and instruction.

Chapter 18 Instructor PowerPoint

Downloadable PowerPoint presentation and PowerPoint notes for course instruction. These files are only accessible to instructors who have adopted Information Services Today: An Introduction (3rd ed) for their course. To request access, please click on the images below or email Sandy Hirsh.

Chapter 18 Discussion Questions

The following questions are included in the textbook

1. How would you describe the differences between components of the ACRL Information Literacy Standards (2000) to the components of the ACRL Frames (2016)? Ae they simply the same things being said differently, or do they differ in a deeper way?

2. If information literacy instruction becomes a part of the core curriculum in schools, how would you integrate it throughout the school year?

Additional discussion questions provided by author

1. When was the last time you had to learn how to use a new technology? What was your learning process like?

Related Chapters

The following chapters are referenced in Chapter 18 and may assist in expanding your classroom instruction and discussions.

• Chapter 3: Librarianship: A Continuously Evolving Profession

• Chapter 4: Information Communities

• Chapter 5: Information Needs

• Chapter 8: Literacy and Media Centers: School Libraries

• Chapter 9: Learning and Research Institutions: Academic Libraries

• Chapter 10: Community Anchors for Lifelong Learning: Public Libraries

• Chapter 17: Accessing Information Anywhere and Anytime: Access Services