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Digital Information Literacy
Digital Information Literacy
This lesson was prepared for a 200-level International Studies course on Youth Culture in the Muslim world. The students were given a social media assignment that required them to develop strategies for recognizing and combatting misinformation and disinformation online. The lesson was designed after Michael Caulfield's open access book Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers.
Citational Politics
Citational Politics
This session was designed for an International Studies senior seminar. The theme of the course was "create dangerously" after Edwidge Danticat's book by the same title. The course focused on Black scholars striving to create histories and stories of their people against the limitations of traditional archives and political repression. The central animating question of the course was, "how do we approach archives, library collections, and research through a Black feminist political and ethical framework?" This session was designed to help students identify the advantages and disadvantages of traditional paths for locating scholarly sources, including the potential pitfalls of citation chaining; to understand how citational practices are political and how power shapes which voices are amplified or erased in academic research; and to employ new strategies for finding and engaging with historically marginalized voices.
Archival Silences
Archival Silences
This session was designed for first year students in a course themed around museums, publics, and protests. Students were in the process of reading and learning about archival silences and museum histories of harm. Their assigned readings for the week of the library session included two case-studies focused on museum relationships with Native American cultural material in North America and Benin cultural material in Europe. The central goal of the library session was to help students generate strategies for moving forward with research despite historical silences in library, museum, and archival collections.
FYSM 141 Session 1 Lesson Plan (Guzman).docxMind Mapping
Mind Mapping
This lesson was delivered to students in an honors political science thesis colloquium, international studies senior seminar, and credit bearing library information literacy course. In all cases, students were in the topic development phase of their research and needed help in narrowing the scope of their research topics and formulating research questions. We used the technique of mind mapping to move from broad to more refined topics and preliminary research questions. Included below is the lesson as well as a recreation of the mind map we created as a class using "substance abuse" as the initial topic.
Literature Reviews
Literature Reviews
This session was designed for a 300-level Public Policy and Law class where students were required to write a literature review on a topic related to restorative justice. Students were limited to books and scholarly peer-reviewed articles. They needed help in understanding what a literature review is and how to go about writing one. The lesson plan included a reading of Jeffrey Knopf's article "Doing a Literature Review" (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096506060264) and an introduction to using a synthesis matrix for writing literature reviews. The synthesis matrix was adapted from the matrix created by North Carolina State University Writing and Speaking Tutorial Service.
Op Eds
Op Eds
This session was designed for students in a 300-level Public Policy internship seminar where students were required to write an op ed for the CT Mirror. I designed and taught the session in collaboration with my Trinity College colleague Cait Kennedy, Research, Technology, and Outreach Librarian. By the end of the session, students were expected to be able to identify and locate the types of information sources needed for public scholarship, and to critically assess the credibility of web resources by using the lateral reading techniques of fact checkers. Below you will find the lesson plan, corresponding PowerPoint, and course guide.
Wikipedia Editing
Wikipedia Editing
This two-part session was designed for students in a 300-level sociology course centered on global gender inequalities. The main assignment for the course required students to either create or edit Wikipedia articles related to the themes of the course. For session one, students needed help in understanding and locating peer-reviewed articles to satisfy Wikipedia's criteria around reliable sources. Session two focused on providing students with strategies for researching a living person (i.e., scholars in the field) and thinking through their own citational practices.
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