Incorporating intentional goal setting, planning, and reflection into the learning process helps students build strong information literacy skills. These practices encourage students to be thoughtful, reflective, and strategic in their approach to learning and using information.
Finding information: Encourage students to set clear goals for their research. By analyzing what they need to know, students can identify the best sources and research strategies.
Evaluating information: Ask students to reflect on the quality and relevance of the information they find. This critical evaluation is a key part of information literacy, ensuring that students use credible and accurate sources.
Encouraging students to intentionally reflect on their information seeking behaviors and how they use information will help them build a solid information literacy mindset. Incorporating reflection exercises in conjunction with a scaffolded research assignment will strongly contribute to the three core curriculum IL learning objectives. Each reflection exercise contains several questions related to an overall theme, select one or two questions or use them as a jumping off point to create your own reflection prompt.
These reflective exercises were inspired by the Information Literacy Reflection Tool.