Information Literacy and Technological Agility Shared Competency (ILTA)

The Information Literacy Program at Syracuse University Libraries offers support to faculty interested in developing strategies to incorporate information literacy knowledge, skills and attitudes into their teaching. In this one-day workshop, librarians will assist faculty in creating new or adapting existing assignments that will allow students to demonstrate their learning in a way that aligns with the ILTA rubric. During the workshop, participants will:

• revise or create an assignment or learning activity that can be assessed using the ILTA rubric,
• discover learning strategies and pedagogies that enable students to demonstrate their information literacy skills,
• interact with faculty members from outside their discipline to build community,
• learn how the Libraries can support them in enhancing their assignments to incorporate diverse resources and
• share their new/revised assignments to an ILTA assignment repository maintained by the Libraries.

The workshop will be facilitated by Kelly Delevan, Michelle Mitchell, and John Stawarz.

Tentative Schedule for January 7, 2025

9:00-9:30 am Welcome and Introductions​

9:30-10:15 am What is information Literacy? What is the ACRL Framework? What is the rubric?  ​

10:15-10:30 am Break    ​

10:30-11:15 am: How do students demonstrate their learning of ILTA?  ​

• ILTA Rubric Practice: https://syr.libwizard.com/f/ILTA_Rubric

11:15-12:00 pm: Reflective Assignment Activity​

12:00-1:00 pm Lunch  ​

1:00-1:30 pm Subject Liaisons & Faculty Assignment sharing  ​

1:30-2:00 pm Independent work on assignments with help from Subject Liaisons if needed   ​

2:00-2:15 pm Break ​

2:15-2:45 pm Independent work on assignments ​

2:45-3:00 pm Wrap up and assessment/next steps and expectations moving forward

• ILTA Professional Development Workshop Survey

Faculty

• Amanda Brown - Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
• Chaya Lee Charles - Nutrition and Food Studies
• Sean Conrey - English
• Lin Guo - Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
• Chris Hanson - English
• Kelly Leahy - Television, Radio, Film
• Meredith Martin - Psychology
• Christopher Perrello - School of Information Studies
• Maureen Thompson - Public Health
• Sevinç Türkkan - Writing Studies

Librarians

• Kelly Delevan, Information Literacy Librarian
• John Stawarz, Online Learning Librarian

Welcome to the ILTA Faculty Workshop! This workshop was designed to offer support to faculty members who have or are considering teaching courses tagged with the Information Literacy and Technological Agility (ILTA) Shared Competency. During the workshop, participants will:

• revise or create an assignment or learning activity that can be assessed using the ILTA rubric,
• discover learning strategies and pedagogies that enable students to demonstrate their Information Literacy skills,
• interact with faculty members from outside their discipline to build community,
• learn how the Libraries’ can support them in enhancing their assignments to incorporate diverse resources, and
• share their new/revised assignments to an ILTA assignment repository maintained by the Libraries.

Workshop Agenda

9:00-9:30 - Welcome & Introductions

9:30-10:15 - What is Information Literacy? What are the ILTA Shared Competency & rubric?

10:15-10:30 - Break

10:30-12:00 - How do students demonstrate their learning of ILTA?

Link: ILTA Rubric Practice

12:00-1:00 - Lunch (Spector Room, Bird 608)

1:00-1:30 - Group work: Subject liaisons & faculty assignment sharing

1:30-2:00 - Independent work on aligning assignment with the ILTA rubric

2:00-2:15 - Break

2:15-2:45 - More independent work on assignments

2:45-3:00 - Wrap up, assessment, and next steps moving forward

Link: Session feedback form