Session Resources

Readings

• Craig Gibson, Student Engagement and Information Literacy (Chicago: ACRL, 2006); available for purchase at <http://www.alastore.ala.org/SiteSolution.taf?_sn=catalog2&_pn=product_detail&_op=2158>.
• Henry Jenkins, Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century, <http://www.digitallearning.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7B7E45C7E0-A3E0-4B89-AC9C-E807E1B0AE4E%7D/JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF>
• George Lorenzo, Diana Oblinger, and Charles Dziuban, “How Choice, Co-Creation, and Cultures Are Changing What It Means to Be Net Savvy,” <http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ELI3008> or <http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm07/eqm0711.asp>
• Tracy Mitrano, "Thoughts on Facebook," <http://www.cit.cornell.edu/policy/memos/facebook.html>
• National Academy of Sciences, Being Fluent with Information Technology, <http://books.nap.edu/html/beingfluent/>
• Diana G. Oblinger, "Becoming Net Savvy," EDUCAUSE Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3 (2007), pp. 11–13. <http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EQM0731.pdf>
• Carie Windham, “Getting Past Google: Perspectives on Information Literacy from the Millennial Mind,” <http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ELI3007>
• Dana J. Wilber, MyLiteracies: Understanding the Net Generation Through LiveJournals and Literacy Practices, <http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=384>

Blogs/Podcasts

• Susan Curzon, Charles Dziuban, and Martha Marinara, “Information Fluency in the Digital Age,” <http://connect.educause.edu/blog/carie417/educause2006_podcast_information_fluency/23729>
  This 41-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences shares the presenters’ attempts to establish an information fluency culture at the University of Central Florida.
• Teachingmedia, <http://teachingliterature.typepad.com/teachingmedia/>
• Teachingmedialiteracy MediaLiteracyWikibook, <http://teachingmedialiteracy.pbwiki.com/MediaLiteracyWikibook>
• Jeff VanDrimmelen, “Five Ways You Could Use Video in Education,” <http://www.edutechie.com/2007/01/five-ways-you-could-use-video-in-education/>

Video

• E-literate <http://www.newliteracies.gseis.ucla.edu/video/index.html>

A 15-minuted educational video commissioned by the Pacific Bell/UCLA Initiative for 21st Century Literacies designed to introduce information literacy to all age levels, from children to college students to adults.

• “Language, SOSE: Education Artifact: Part I,”
  <http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1322916162818345940>

This video focuses on visual arts education and related areas in language, general education, and Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE) education such as multiliteracies and global perspectives. The use of information communication technologies as essential learning for the changing nature of schooling for the 21st century provides the framework for the artifact. The video explores a multiliteracies approach that specifically focuses on visual literacy, digital literacy, and critical literacy.