Empowering learners and promoting critical information literacy through student-directed content creation

The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education emphasizes the importance of students as creators within the information environment, not just consumers. This theme runs throughout all of the frames, but is most forthright in Information Creation as a Process. During this webinar, we will dive deep into this frame and discuss the opportunities for developing critical information literacy skills in students through content creation that gives them agency and a lead role in their own experiential learning. We will discuss specific assignments that can be adapted to a range of instruction types and institutional contexts, platforms and tools, and the role of the librarian in these types of projects. Attendees will leave with actionable ideas for changing up their assignment design and instruction plans to incorporate student-directed content creation and further their students’ development of information literacy within their own disciplines.

About the speaker

Amanda Scull, MLIS, is Head of Education and Information Services at the Dartmouth College Biomedical Libraries. She has extensive experience teaching undergraduate and graduate students, and has written and presented several on the topic of adapting instruction to incorporate more student agency and student-directed assignment design.

After the presentation, there will be time for Q&A with Amanda.