ala 2011 - why transliteracy
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Information Literacy vs. Transliteracy:
Lessons for Library Instruction
Lane Wilkinson “Why Transliteracy?” panel
New Orleans - June 25, 2011
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Information Literacy vs. Transliteracy:
Lessons for Library Instruction
Three Goals What’s the difference? How is transliteracy relevant? Lessons we can learn.
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difference What is the difference
between transliteracy and information literacy?
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literacy in
form
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critical vi
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transliteracy media
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health ora
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computer
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numeracy electracy
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statistica
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literacy in
form
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critical vi
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transliteracy media
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digital
health ora
lity
computer
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cult
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historical
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numeracy electracy
visua
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statistica
l meta
financial
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literacy
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literacy Reading and writing?
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Clicking and typing?
literacy
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Posting and hosting?
literacy
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Is there a common thread?
Yes
literacy
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Literacy is our way of accessing the flow of
information.
literacy
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Literacy is a means for encoding and
decoding that information.
literacy
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We encode and decode information in order to
communicate.
literacy
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Literacy is about communication
literacy
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Literacy is the ability to communicate
meaning by encoding and decoding information.
literacy
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(sort of)
literacy
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This is literacy in the descriptive sense.
literacy
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Sometimes we talk about literacy in an evaluative sense.
literacy
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We talk about the skills needed to evaluate
information.
literacy
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Health literacy
literacy
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Scientific literacy
literacy
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Media literacy
literacy
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Critical literacy
…and beyond
literacy
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Each of these senses of literacy are neutral with respect to specific media
literacy
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They are about evaluating information,
not communicating information
literacy
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Isn’t it just
splitting hairs?
How is this relevant?
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communicate Print
Orality Signing
Computer Visual Digital
literacy
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By Subject Health
Scientific Economic
&c.
Print Orality Signing
Computer Visual Digital
communicate evaluate By Concept
Critical Media
Cultural &c.
literacy
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By Subject Health
Scientific Economic
&c.
Print Orality Signing
Computer Visual Digital
communicate evaluate By Concept
Critical Media
Cultural &c.
literacy
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By Subject Health
Scientific Economic
&c.
evaluate By Concept
Critical Media
Cultural &c.
This is information
literacy
literacy
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Print Orality Signing
Computer Visual Digital
communicate This is not
information literacy
literacy
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Print Orality Signing
Computer Visual Digital
communicate This is
transliteracy
literacy
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trans-
literacy
information
literacy
Transliteracy addresses the way we communicate information across multiple media
Information literacy addresses the way we evaluate information
using multiple skills
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Is library instruction about
evaluation or communication?
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relevance How is transliteracy relevant
to library instruction?
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relevance Our students
have grown up immersed in information
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relevance
They don’t just read and write
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relevance They upload,
download, tweet, like, and text.
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relevance
They communicate information
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relevance But they hit a wall in the library
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relevance They see the library as different…
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relevance …and therefore inaccessible
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relevance The library is out of their network
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relevance
They want to communicate…
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relevance
…what do we want?
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What are we doing to make the
library part of their network?
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transliteracy What lessons can
transliteracy teach us?
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transliteracy Communication is distributed across
information sources
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information Information flows all around us
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information Literacy is how we interact with that
information
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information
Multiple ways to interact
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information
Multiple ways to interact
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information The library is not alone
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information There are other information sources out there.
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information Show your students that the library
offers another way of communicating
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transliteracy Information
resources don’t stand alone, they
interact
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interaction
We tend to teach the differences
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interaction
Popular vs. Scholarly
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interaction
Wikipedia vs. Experts
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interaction
Print vs. Digital
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interaction
The Library vs. Google
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interaction
The Library vs. Google
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interaction
We forget that though there are differences…
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interaction
…that can be a good thing.
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interaction
Different information sources play different roles in research…so teach them
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interaction
Teach the interaction, not the differences
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interaction Help them make the connection
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interaction Bobish, G. (2011). Participation and pedagogy: connecting the social web to ACRL learning outcomes. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 37(1), 54-63.
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transliteracy
Think in terms of transferable skills
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transfer Using a range of
media is just multiple literacies
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transfer Transliteracy is
about combining and moving across a
range of media
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transfer Moving across
literacies requires more than just multiple skills
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transfer Moving across
literacies requires skills that can adjust
and transfer
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transfer
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transfer
The concept of mental models
Holman, L. (2011). Millennial students’ mental models of search: implications for academic librarians and database developers. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 37(1), 19-27.
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transfer
Mapping meaning and skills across media and tools.
Holman, L. (2011). Millennial students’ mental models of search: implications for academic librarians and database developers. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 37(1), 19-27.
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transfer
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transfer
Finding keywords
The big picture
Current research
The conversation
Metaphor & design
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transliteracy
The takeaway
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transliteracy
What can you take back to your instruction
program?
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transliteracy Think about communication
Teach how information sources interact
Look for skills that will transfer
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transliteracy Thanks!
Lane Wilkinson
Univ. of Tennessee at Chattanooga
flavors.me/wilk
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transliteracy