Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners

Find on LibraryThing.Find on WorldCat.
Price: 
$67.00
ALA Member 
$60.30
Item Number: 
978-1-55570-989-1
Published: 
2014
Publisher: 
ALA Neal-Schuman
Pages: 
248
Width: 
6"
Height: 
9"
Format: 
Softcover
AP Categories: 
A

Samples

619.13 KBpdfDownload
  • Description
  • Table of Contents
  • About the Authors
  • Reviews
Today's learners communicate, create, and share information using a range of information technologies such as social media, blogs, microblogs, wikis, mobile devices and apps, virtual worlds, and MOOCs. In Metaliteracy, respected information literacy experts Mackey and Jacobson present a comprehensive structure for information literacy theory that builds on decades of practice while recognizing the knowledge required for an expansive and interactive information environment. The concept of metaliteracy expands the scope of traditional information skills (determine, access, locate, understand, produce, and use information) to include the collaborative production and sharing of information in participatory digital environments (collaborate, produce, and share) prevalent in today's world. Combining theory and case studies, the authors
  • Show why media literacy, visual literacy, digital literacy, and a host of other specific literacies are critical for informed citizens in the twenty-first century
  • Offer a framework for engaging in today's information environments as active, selfreflective, and critical contributors to these collaborative spaces
  • Connect metaliteracy to such topics as metadata, the Semantic Web, metacognition, open education, distance learning, and digital storytelling
This cutting-edge approach to information literacy will help your students grasp an understanding of the critical thinking and reflection required to engage in technology spaces as savvy producers, collaborators, and sharers.
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Sheila A. Webber
Preface
 
Chapter 1: Developing a Metaliteracy Framework to Promote Metacognitive Learning
Metaliteracy
The Meta in Metaliteracy
Metacognition
Toward a Metaliteracy Framework
Multiple Intelligences
Multiliteracies
Multimodal Literacy
Transliteracy
Metacompetency and Convergence
The Metaliteracy Model
Conclusion
References
 
Chapter 2: Metaliteracy in the Open Age of Social Media
Trends in Social Media
Social and Visual Networking
Blogs and Microblogs
Global Mobility
From Information Age to Post-Information Age
The Information Age
The Post-Information Age
The Open Age of Social Media
Participation
Openness
Metadata and the Semantic Web
Conclusion
References
 
Chapter 3: Developing the Metaliterate Learner by Integrating Competencies and Expanding Learning Objectives
Related Literacies
Discrete Literacies
Media Literacy
Digital Literacy
Cyberliteracy
Visual Literacy
Mobile Literacy
Critical Information Literacy
Health Literacy
Combined Literacies
Transliteracy
New Media Literacy
ICT Literacy
Information Fluency
Metaliteracy Learning Goals and Objectives
Goal 1: Evaluate content critically, including dynamic, online content that changes and evolves, such as article preprints, blogs, and wikis
Goal 2: Understand personal privacy, information ethics, and intellectual property issues in changing technology environments
Goal 3: Share information and collaborate in a variety of participatory environments
Goal 4: Demonstrate ability to connect learning and research strategies with lifelong learning processes and personal, academic, and professional goals
Integrating the Four Domains
The Metaliterate Learner
Conclusion
References
 
Chapter 4: Global Trends in Emerging Literacies
International Trends in Open Education
Literacy Initiatives from International Organizations
UNESCO
UNESCO's Media and Information Literacy
OERs
The Prague Declaration: Anticipating Later MIL Initiatives
IFLA
The Bologna Process and the Tuning Project
Evolving Information Literacy Frameworks
Examples of Recent Information Literacy Frameworks
United Kingdom: Seven Pillars of Information Literacy
2011 SCONUL Seven Pillars Model
Revised Pillars and Graphical Representation
Convergences between Metaliteracy and the Seven Pillar Models
Adaptations via Lenses
Hong Kong: Information Literacy Framework for Hong Kong Students
Conclusion
References
 
Chapter 5: Survey of the Field: From Theoretical Frameworks to Praxis
Research Questions 
Methods
Survey Design
Distribution Method
Results
Response Rate
Demographics
Survey Results
Teaching Background
Technology Infrastructure and Support
Knowledge of Literacies and Literacy Frameworks
Components of Information Literacy Teaching
Changing Information Environment
Data Analysis
Age
Literacies to Include in Information Literacy Instruction
Preparation Levels and Required Technologies 
Discussion and Implications for Further Research
Populations
Increased Awareness of Evolving Literacies
The State of the Literature/The State of Awareness
Conclusion
References
Appendix 5.1: Survey—Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy
 
Chapter 6: The Evolution of a Dedicated Information Literacy Course Toward Metaliteracy
Evolving Information Literacy General Education Requirement
Transformations to the Final Project in the Information Literacy Course Taught by Librarians
Team-Based Learning and Its Effect on the Research Guide
Topic Selection for Final Projects
Implementation of Wiki
Goals for the Project Revision
Analysis of Wiki Project Based on Elements of Transparency
Student Perceptions of Wiki
Additional Metaliteracy Elements
Evolution Toward Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy 
Expanded Information Literacy General Education Course
A New, Social Media-Focused Course
Application Exercises to Enhance Metaliteracy Skills by Gregory Bobish
Exercise 1: YouTube Video Removal Exercise 
Exercise 2: Primary Information: Finding Experts via Blogs and Twitter
Remix Final Project
Expanding Discomfort, Expanding Knowledge
References
 
Chapter 7: Exploring Digital Storytelling from a Metaliteracy Perspective
Institutional Context
SUNY Empire State College
Center for Distance Learning
College-Level Learning Goals
Digital Storytelling
Learning Design
Learning Objectives
Creating Digital Stories
Mapping the Metaliteracy Model to Digital Storytelling
Conclusion
References
 
About the Authors
Index

Thomas P. Mackey

Thomas P. Mackey, Ph.D., is Professor of Arts and Media in the School of Arts and Humanities at State University of New York (SUNY) Empire State College. His research into metaliteracy, a pedagogical framework he originated with Prof. Trudi E. Jacobson develops learners as reflective, informed, and self-directed producers of information. They both lead the Metaliteracy Learning Collaborative to advance metaliteracy research, writing, teaching, grant projects, open educational resources (OER), and the design of innovative learning environments. He and Prof. Jacobson have both been invited to keynote on metaliteracy in the United States and internationally. They provide updates on their research through their collaborative blog at metaliteracy.org. Prof. Mackey served as Associate Dean and Dean of the Center for Distance Learning (CDL), and in senior management roles as Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Interim Provost. He teaches courses in History & Theory of New Media, Information Design, Digital Storytelling, and Ethics of Digital Art & Design and has developed several international Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) about metaliteracy. His faculty website is: https://www.tpmackey.com/.

Trudi E. Jacobson

Trudi E. Jacobson, MLS, MA, Distinguished Librarian, was the Head of the Information Literacy Department at the University at Albany for many years, retiring in 2022. In 2021, she was appointed an Extraordinary Professor in the Self-Directed Learning Research Unit of the Faculty of Education, North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa. She has been deeply involved with teaching and information literacy throughout her career, and from 2013–2015 cochaired the Association of College and Research Libraries Task Force that created the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. With Prof. Thomas P. Mackey, she codeveloped metaliteracy. Her most recent work focuses on open pedagogy and how the students’ learning experience can be enhanced in such settings by metaliteracy. She regularly teaches an information literacy course for upper-level undergraduates that uses editing in Wikipedia as a way to understand core concepts from metaliteracy and information literacy, as well as an information literacy instruction graduate course, and has taught a first-year experience course in which students created an OER for other first-year students (https://sites.google.com/view/ualbanyforfirstyearstudents/home). She is the coauthor or coeditor of fourteen books, including three about metaliteracy, and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. Prof. Jacobson received the ACRL Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award in 2009. Her website is http://www.trudijacobson.com.

"This book is of great value to any librarian seeking to find ways to integrate literacy into a classroom. It will also be useful to any instructional designer wanting to integrate the ever-growing number of literacies into the development sessions offered to faculty."
— ARBA

"A broad audience of educators at many levels will benefit from this well constructed, formatted, and developed study of how best to reach today's learners."
— Catholic Library World

"A valuable contribution to the discussion of information and related literacies that successfully pushes the discussion into areas of reflective learning and acknowledges the challenges and opportunities of new technologies. The volume will likely be of interest to instruction librarians, especially in higher education settings, and to library science faculty who teach in areas of library instruction and information and related literacies."
— Library & Information Science Research

"The authors do an excellent job explaining the theoretical framework for their metaliteracy model, and anyone with an interest in the future of information literacy would find this section thought-provoking … The imminent completion of the ACRL Framework makes this book a timely and valuable addition to the ongoing debate about the future of information literacy."
— Portal

"A concise, informative, and well-written volume. Their style and voice have the practiced ease of familiarity."
— Serials Review

Also of Interest: 
Image for Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners—eEditions e-book
Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners—eEditions e-book
Image for Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners—print/e-book Bundle
Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners—print/e-book Bundle
Image for Metaliteracy in a Connected World: Developing Learners as Producers
Metaliteracy in a Connected World: Developing Learners as Producers
Image for Sustainability of Scholarly Information
Sustainability of Scholarly Information
Image for Serving the Underserved: Strategies for Inclusive Community Engagement
Serving the Underserved: Strategies for Inclusive Community Engagement
Image for Metaliteracy in Practice
Metaliteracy in Practice
Image for Metaliterate Learning for the Post-Truth World
Metaliterate Learning for the Post-Truth World
Image for Practical Academic Library Instruction: Learner-Centered Techniques
Practical Academic Library Instruction: Learner-Centered Techniques