Presentation given at Digital Natives: Engaging libraries in the future of their learning event for school librarians on 17 Nov 2010

1. How can you help Tom?
A school librarian's guide to preparing
students for university
Jo Alcock
Evidence Base
Birmingham City University

2. Who is Tom?

3. How can you help Tom?
Digital literacy:
What is digital
literacy?
How can you support
digital literacy?

4. What is digital literacy?
Helen Curtis, University of Wolverhampton

5. Fresher’s Week
Tom’s Experience
• Busy social calendar
• Making new friends and keeping in touch with old friends
• Online social networking to supplement face to face
socialising

6. How can you help?
• Responsible social networking
– School policy?
– Support appropriate use (e.g. privacy)
• Digital identity
– This Is Me resource
• Protecting reputation online
– CommonCraft video

7. Lecture 1
Tom’s Experience
• Multiple module guides to understand
– Learning outcomes
– Module requirements
• Reading and resource lists to support studies
– Different types of resources
– Required vs. recommended reading

8. How can you help?
• Using the VLE
– School VLE/intranet
– Online tools
• Familiarisation with module guides
– Copies of subject guides in the library
– Exam board specifications
– In house module guides
• Using resource lists
– Topic resource lists, even with fiction

9. Visit to library
Tom’s Experience
• Using catalogue
– Searching for reading list items
• Browsing shelves and locating items
• Online resources
– Finding e-books and e-journals

10. How can you help?
• Library activities
– Quizzes
– Rewards and certificates
• Searching for known items
– Using the catalogue
– Treasure hunts
• Understanding classification schemes
– Order in the Library game

11. First assignment
Tom’s Experience
• Lots of time spent finding resources
• Needs to find a way of filtering out some of the resources
• Need to incorporate research into assignment

12. How can you help?
• Time management
– Assignment Survival Kit
• Constructing effective searches
– Keyword activities
• Evaluating information
– 5 Ws Information Source Evaluation Matrix
– Spoof websites
– Internet Detective
• Referencing and plagiarism
– Fundamentals of referencing

13. Your homework
• 3 things you are going
to investigate or
implement to improve
the digital literacy skills
at your school

14. Foundations to success

15. Thank you for listening
Jo Alcock
http://www.joeyanne.co.uk
@joeyanne
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