Searching as Exploration

Good Afternoon All, 

Today we are focusing on the last frame in the ACRL Framework. We are looking at Searching as Exploration. 

Topic: The effects of parental incarceration of young children.

Learning Outcomes:

•        Students will be able to identify that information can be produced by interested parties such as scholars, organizations etc.

•       Students will be able to understand that there are a variety of sources of information that varies greatly in content and format, and have vary relevancy and value depending on the search.

•        Students will be able to use different types of searching methods when seeking information.

Activity. 

•      Each student will have to conduct research by finding information on their topic and find out which organization or individuals have disseminated information on that, such as institutional repositories, government publication, organizational websites and so forth.

•            Students will have to seek out 5 reputable sources based on their topic such as journal articles, printed books, e-books, newspapers and so forth. This will allow students to see that information can be anywhere.  

•            Students will have to show what strategies they would use to refine their search in order to retrieve information. They would have to list at least two strategies that they would use to obtain information such as keywords, Boolean search etc.

 The students will incorporate both knowledge practices and dispositions by doing the activities. Activity 1 and 2 comes from Knowledge practices and activity 3 is formulated by the dispositions of this frame.