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How can you help Tom? A school librarian's guide to preparing students for university
Jo AlcockEvidence Base
Birmingham City University
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How can you help Tom?
Digital literacy:What is digital literacy?How can you support digital literacy?
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What is digital literacy?
Helen Curtis, University of Wolverhampton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Your homework
• 3 things you are going to investigate or implement to improve the digital literacy skills at your school
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Foundations to success
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Thank you for listening
Jo Alcockhttp://www.joeyanne.co.uk
@joeyanne
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