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Information Literacy and Technological Agility Shared Competency (ILTA)

This guide offers support for faculty members using or exploring the ILTA Shared Competency

Outcome 5: Technological Agility

Definition: Employ appropriate technology in context.  

Indicators Exemplary Developing Emergent Not Evident
5.1 Uses a variety of technologies to  complete academic and personal work.  Uses required technologies accurately  to complete academic or personal work. Uses required technology with minor inaccuracies to 
complete academic or personal work  
Uses required technology inaccuracies to complete academic or personal work with major.   Does not use required technologies to complete academic or personal work.
5.2 Uses technological tool(s) to 
accurately analyze information.  
Applies technological 
tool(s) to analyze information  and/or to reach valid conclusions accurately. 
Applies technological tool(s) to 
analyze information and/or to  reach valid conclusions with minor inaccuracies.  
Applies technological tool(s) to 
analyze information and/or to reach valid conclusions with major inaccuracies.  
Does not use technological tools to 
analyze information and/or to reach valid conclusions. 

Common Artifacts, Activities, and Tools: Citation software (such as Zotero); Discipline-specific tools

Sample Activities for this Outcome

Online Videos & Tutorials

The following links will take you to online videos and tutorials aligned with the above Outcome that you can ask your students to complete.  For many of the tutorials there are accompanying quizzes that we can send you if you would like to use them.  Please contact Kelly Delevan (kdeleva@syr.edu) or John Stawarz (jdstawar@syr.edu) if you would like to know more.

​​​​​​​These are just a few of the available tutorials/videos.  For more, visit: https://researchguides.library.syr.edu/tutorials