Incorporating Information Competency into the Curriculum

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Incorporating Information Competency into the
Curriculum

• Carol Womack, Santa Monica College Library

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Information Competency

• Definition
• History
• Importance in the Community College
• New Models

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Definition

• ability to find, evaluate, use, and communicate
  information in all its various formats
• combines aspects of library literacy, research
  methods and technological literacy

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Definition

• includes consideration of the ethical and legal
  implications of information
• requires the application of both critical
  thinking and communication skills

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History 1980s

• California Dept. of Education
• American Library Association
• Carnegie Foundation

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History 1990s

• CSUs info literacy planning
• ACRL standards
• California Community Colleges
• CCC Council of Chief Librarians
• CCC Academic Senate
• CCC Board of Governors

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History 2000

• Academic Senate resolutions for IC graduation
  requirement
• 2002 Board of governors
• Present on hold

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The Grant

• Santa Monica College
• Fund for Instructional Improvement
• 97,048
• Fall 2001 Summer 2002

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Background

• Initiated by faculty
• Info comp need
• Info Comp Task Force
• SMC
• 30,000 students
• 90 academic programs
• 20 vocational programs

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The Goal

• Promote innovation via faculty/staff development
• Develop lifelong learners

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The Objectives

• To establish a common core of understanding
• what information competency is (and
  isnt)
• its importance in instruction
• faculty required to incorporate information
  competency assignments in their classes.

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The Objectives

• To create information competency assignments
• pilot group of selected courses
• implement in the classroom

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The Objectives

• To increase students level of competency
• with using a variety of information resources
• pre- and post-test
• use of information resources in writing a
  research paper.

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The Objectives

• To create an online information competency
  course
• distance education
• opportunity to develop own information competency.

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The FII Grant Team

• Director of Academic Computing
• Assistant Dean, Library
• Dean, English Dept.
• President, Academic Senate
• Chair, Professional Development Committee
• Chair, Curriculum Committee
• BI Librarian

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The Info Comp Team

• Project Director - Jennifer Merlic, Directory of
  Academic Computing
• Faculty
• Carol Womack (Library)Team Leader
• Lawrence Driscoll (English)
• Nancy Grass-Hemmert (Speech)
• Richard Bailey (Business)
• Information Competency Task Force

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The Procedures

• Create a series of modules covering info comp
  issues
• Technology changes
• Pedagogical impact
• Best practices

• Faculty practicum (summer session)
• Pilot Test (History 10)
• Distance ed class for students

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Benefits

• For the California Community College System
• Presentation and dissemination of info comp
  professional development curriculum

• For Faculty
• Understanding concepts of info comp
• For Students
• Development of info comp skills

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Future

• Expand scopelifelong learning
• Work with other faculty and librarians
• K-12
• 4-year higher ed institutions

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The Process

• Info Comp task force recommendations
• Content
• Audience

• Creation of 2-unit class
• Pedagogy
• Assignments
• Organization
• Presentation

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The Product

• Library 15/Education 152 unit class
• Debut summer 2002
• Faculty English, History, Business, Library
• http//homepage.smc.edu/womack_carol/Library15/

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