Bishop’s University Information Literacy and Critical Thinking (ILT) History of IL at Bishop’s Human Resources Course design and evaluation Classroom management Final thoughts History of IL at Bishop’s Specialized instruction sessions IL 101: Information Literacy and Critical thinking. (ILT) Making it mandatory! Education and Business Growth since…history, modern languages, sociology? Human Resources Teaching 3 sections at 12 hours per semester has been manageable. Support from management very important as certain other duties needed to been given lower priority Union issues. If the programme grows I foresee HR issues. Course design and evaluation Syllabus Moodle Things I try to bear in mind Am I teaching or demonstrating? Are these assignments helping them express to me how much they know? Are they learning anything? Are they paying attention? Be careful in how I phrase a question. What do I want to know? Is it too easy? If it can be misinterpreted, it will be. Try to engage the students (thanks WILU). Fact is, whether we like it or not, students want to be entertained. Try to avoid the hour-long lecture. Classroom Management Day one: set tone. (review Syllabus) Know your “audience” – elective or mandatory? First year? Try to avoid lecturing… Plagiarism (find any excuse to talk about it and warn them about the consequences). E-classroom. The ugly truth about teaching in an e-classrooms (LANschool). Ahhhh, the excuses… Classroom Management It’s true what they say: Give them an inch…. Think before granting extensions, good news travels fast. Student comments (evaluations) Content and/or teaching style not exciting enough (?) Student participation Too hard? too easy? “I learned all this in CEGEP” In some ways, University is an extension of High School…peer pressure, apathy, stress, idealism. In many ways, University is where we learn important life lessons. Don’t be discouraged. Don’t ignore the silent majority. Final thoughts….. Questions…. Biggest challenges? Motivating students Striking healthy balance with my other duties Confronting students (plagiarism/cheating, lateness (for class and assignments), goofing off during class. Weaning them from their dependence on the Web. Good luck in September!!! My philosophy on Information literacy? An information literacy course is like high school sex ed. Class.... They’re going to be doing it anyway (research, that is) it’s nice get in there and show them how to do it right, even though they think they know it all.