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Graduate Teacher Program Course Redesign
Information Technology Fluency and Information Literacy Components

1. Theoretical Framework
   --What, why, how it fits into your course redesign

    

   • Information Technology Fluency (ITF)

      

     • Technology Everywhere: A Campus Agenda for Educating and Managing Workers in the Digital Age (2002)
       • Chapter 3 What is it, and Why do We need IT

      

   • Information Literacy (IL)

      

     1. Key Points:
        • Critical thinking in the information environment
        • Situated within the discipline

         

     2. Definitions, Assumptions and Expectations
        • Information Literacy in Higher Education
        • Information Literacy in the Disciplines

         

      

    

2. Student Trends

    

   • The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2006
     • Chapter 5 Information Technology in Courses

      

   • Beloit College Mindset List

    

    

3. Services and Support

    

   • IT Literacy (Skills)

      

     1. Programs
        • Student Information Technology Literarcy Program at CU Boulder
          • Student Digital Literarcy Goals
        • Teaching Digital Responsibility

         

     2. Services
        • Digital Media Services Center

      

   • Content and Critical Thinking

      

     1. Library assignment consultations with Subject Bibliographers

         

     2. Teaching resources
        • LOEX Clearinghouse for Library Instruction: Teaching Resources
        • Evaluating research in academic journals : a practical guide to realistic evaluation
        • Preparing literature reviews : qualitative and quantitative approaches
        • Active Learning Series published by Library Instruction Publications

         

     3. Effective library assignment tips
        • UC Berkeley Library

         

     4. Online Resources
        • Online learning object sources such as MERLOT
        • Digitized content
          • Library of Congress's American Memory Project
          • Colorado Digitization Program
          • Digital Asset Library (DIAL)
          • Early English Books Online
          • New York Times Archive
          • Associated Press Multimedia Archive
          • EnviroNetBase
          • Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, and many others.
        • University Libraries' database by subject
        • University Libraries' subject guide
        • Audiovisual material from Media Library and web archive such as CSPAN
        • Rare and unique material in University Libraries Special Collections and Archives