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Minitex News articles tagged with "Instruction" (60):

ELM Workshop Gives Teachers a Head Start

In mid-August I gave a workshop to the teachers with Lincoln Elementary School in Ivanhoe, MN, just outside Marshall.

Interested in Game-based or Narrative Instruction? Would You Help with a Thing?

We’re developing a narrative-based instructional game to introduce the threshold concepts of the ACRL Information Literacy Framework to students.

Engaging with Students in Online Courses

A central tenet of learning is making connections – between ideas, concepts, and even people along the way.

Helping Students to Ask the Right Questions

The folks at Project Information Literacy recently interviewed Dan Rothstein, co-author of the 2011 book Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions. Rothstein’s work fo

Can’t I just Google it? : Informational Literacy and the Digital Native

One of the sessions I went to was “Can’t I just Google it? : Informational Literacy and the Digital Native” presented by Deanna Munson, Assistant Director for Crown College Library.

Going Paperless: First Year Students, Selfies, and Information Literacy

Have you used an online survey to collect and review library instruction activities?

53 Formative Assessment Ideas

Formative assessments help educators to gauge learner understanding in the middle of the learning process, as opposed to summative assessments which test for understanding at the end.

Top 10 Tech Tools for Educators

For some, the end of the year brings along with it self-reflection, and perhaps pledges to do things differently in the new year. Not to mention tons and tons of “best of” lists.

Information Literacy Interactive Tutorial

The ILI-L listserv typically yields a number of good ideas, conversations, tips, and resource links.  Recently, I learned about the Information Literacy Interactive Tutorial through the listserv.  The tutorial w

An Academic Flipped Classroom Model

For a few years now the flipped classroom has been a pedagogical hot topic in the library and teaching professions.  Though much has been written and discussed on the topic, academic models particularly for graduate students are not as easy to find.  The concept itself is fairly simple – self-paced,