Information Literacy Best Practices

Do you have a classroom assignment that engages students in an imaginative or creative use of information? Join the discussion and post some of your activities or assignments. Here are some starters:

• Compare and contrast an event through time or by point of view using historical documents or primary resources
• Discuss the differences between and rationale for free and fee-based information, i.e. books, magazines, journals, www, government publications, film, interviews, newspapers
• Compare an event or topic through the flow of time in broadcast media, newspapers, magazines, journals, books, reference sources
• Identify types of knowledge products: scholarly, professional or popular
• Write an editorial that presents personal perspective on a contemporary issue
• Provide the rationale for decisions to keep or discard information for a research paper
• Explore statistics through examples of how they can change public opinion
• Explore a culture through the use of photographs or pictures
• Use a case study to describe it's importance to research in a broader context
• Follow a news story in several sources, i.e. New York Times and Palm Beach Post and compare the news content