Event Title
LOEX
Date Created
2025
Abstract
Want to keep your instruction relevant for the future by increasing student interest? One way to engage and motivate students is to connect information literacy to their everyday lives. This session features activities that identify and expand upon students’ information literacy skills outside of college, including process maps, discussions about experts in their own lives, and real-life research assignments where students write to their legislators, prepare remarks for a school board meeting, create a lesson plan, and much more! Participants will leave with ideas for transforming one of their own lessons to connect it to students’ everyday lives.
Document Type
Presentation
ORCID ID
0000-0003-1317-6374
Keywords
information literacy, instruction, minoritized students, everyday information literacy, funds of knowledge, asset-based pedagogy
Digital Origin
Born digital
Recommended Citation
Ilett, Darren, "Shaping the Future of Information Literacy Instruction through Connections to Students' Everyday Lives" (2025). University Libraries Publications. 179.
https://digscholarship.unco.edu/libfacpub/179
