Prepare: Read and Annotate the "Research as Inquiry" frame

We talked a little bit about genre analysis and audience/purpose in our last session. With those related concepts in mind, we want to introduce you to just one part of a very formal document written by academic librarians for other academic librarians, faculty, and administrators. Pleasure reading it ain't! But it is a specific type of genre for a specific audience with a singular purpose: to begin and guide conversations around student information literacy. The Framework is very purposefully non-prescriptive and offers up a multitude of desirable difficulties and grappling opportunities. In short, the Framework shook the very foundation of academic librarianship forcing us to rethink our approach to teaching and learning. Cool. But like any formal document it was a product of much debate among experts before it was eventually pulled and squeezed through the keyhole of compromise. Therefore the Framework is not perfectly perfect in every way. So we invite you to help us gnaw around the edges and heck maybe even go full revolution and burn it to the ground. We'll see how it goes.

-Celita and Ernie

There are SIX frames in the Framework, but we want you to engage with only ONE frame for our next session: Research as Inquiry.

1. First, take a quick peek at the infographic in this Module's intro. Let some of that stuff walk around in your head a bit coupled with the fact that not much as changed since the survey was conducted.

2. Second, please read the Introduction to the Framework for Information Literacy Links to an external site. for context. Then launch the Hypothesis annotation tool below to complete nos. 2-3.

3. Highlight two things from the bulleted lists of Knowledge Practices and/or Dispositions that make you say YES! and annotate WHY.

4. Highlight two things from the bulleted lists of Knowledge Practices and/or Dispositions that make you PAUSE... or say NO! and annotate WHY.