As teacher librarians we hope students transfer what they learn during IL instruction to their lives outside college. Yet what evidence do we have that they do so? To find out, we asked students who had previously had IL instruction to describe their thinking as they completed information-seeking tasks and selected information sources. Findings from the study will help us revise our teaching to increase the transferability of learning to everyday contexts. Attendees will participate in interactive polls about their own teaching and brainstorm ideas for revising an activity or lesson plan to encourage IL knowledge transfer.
Participants will:
- identify factors that contribute to students transferring IL skills and knowledge to everyday contexts
- brainstorm ideas for revising an activity or lesson plan to encourage IL knowledge transfer to non-academic contexts
