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In this episode, Amanda and Jessica discuss their thoughts on the recently released EDUCAUSE 2020 Horizon Report and the implications for librarians in higher education.

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Podcast: @Librarian_Guide

Jessica: @LibraryGeek611

Amanda: @HistoryBuff820

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In this episode, Amanda and Jessica discuss their successes and failures creating instructional programming that teaches information literacy skills. They discuss tips and challenges to designing and implementing these events.

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In this episode, Amanda and Jessica talk to Susanne Markgren and Linda Miles, authors of the book “How to Thrive as a Library Professional”. They discuss what it means to thrive, the various topics covered in the book and hone in on specific strategies for networking and habit creation.

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On this episode of The Librarian's Guide to Teaching, Amanda and Jessica talk with Barbara Fister, Scholar-in-Residence at Project Information Literacy and co-researcher on PIL's latest study, "Information Literacy in the Age of Algorithms: Student Experiences with News and Information, and the Need for Change." They discuss the report’s findings, potential barriers to implementing algorithm education and ways that librarians can be a part of the change in higher education.

Guest Bio:

Barbara Fister is a Scholar-in-Residence at Project Information Literacy and co-researcher on PIL's latest study, "Information Literacy in the Age of Algorithms: Student Experiences with News and Information, and the Need for Change." For three decades Barbara coordinated the library instruction program at Gustavus Adolphus College=, a liberal arts college in Minnesota. In addition to collaborative teaching with faculty across the curriculum she has developed courses on research methods, book culture, first term seminars, and (most recently) launched a new course on Clickbait, Bias, and Propaganda in Information Networks.

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https://twitter.com/Jessifer/status/1222177875719327744 

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On this episode of The Librarian's Guide to Teaching, Amanda and Jessica talk with Bonnie Lafazan, Library Director of the Berkeley College Woodbridge Campus and current member of the ACRL Professional Development Committee and the ACRL Conference 2020 Committee. They chat about the importance of the various levels of professional development, strategies to building a culture of development and how we make time for writing and reading.

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Jessica: @LibraryGeek611

Amanda: @HistoryBuff820

Email: [email protected]

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NOTE: It's not your speakers! We had some technical difficulties recording this episode and we are sorry for the choppy audio!

In this episode, Amanda and Jessica discuss online instruction, including the concepts of critical digital pedagogy and open pedagogy which were suggested by a listener on Twitter! They discuss incorporating these concepts into the online environment whether in a credit-bearing course, embedded instruction or one-shots. 

Topics and Takeaways: 

• Critical digital pedagogy asks many of the same questions about teaching as critical pedagogy but extends the discussion into the online environment and includes questions around the use of technology itself. However, online instruction has only been practiced for 20-30 years whereas humans have been teaching and studying pedagogy for thousands of years. How do we bring what we’ve learned into the online realm in a more holistic way rather than being limited by the technology? We need to re-envision online pedagogy! 

• Open pedagogy is focused on themes of collaborative learning and inter-connected with open educational resources, open access and other forms of open education. 

• How do we adapt our one-shot instruction to “work” in this environment? What are the criteria for successful online one-shots?

 • Discussion boards are so limiting in their ability for actual discussion, engagement and assessment. And if we don’t like doing them as students or grading them as teachers, how can we expect our students to feel empowered to do them? We need a new method of creating discussion in our online classrooms. 

Links to resources discussed in this episode: There are SO many great resources on these topics - this is by no means a complete list! 

o Book: Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook by Nicole Pagowsky& Kelly McElroy (2016)

o Book: Critical Library Pedagogy in Practice by Jess Haigh & Elizabeth Brookbank (2020 - The editors just finished accepting proposals in July 2019)

o Eamon C. Tewell (2018)  The Practice and Promise of Critical Information Literacy: Academic Librarians’ Involvement in Critical Library Instruction, College & Research Libraries

o Monthly Twitter Chat: #CritLib

o Kenny Garcia (2019) Keeping Up With Critical Librarianship, ACRL (Great reference list!)

o Podcast: The Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast: Critical Instructional Design With Sean Michael Morris

o Podcast: The Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast: Small Teaching Online With Flower Darby

o Sean Michael Morris: Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Learning Management

o Open Pedagogy Notebook 

o Podcast: The Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast: Critical Open Pedagogy With Rajiv Jhangiani

• Kevin Seeber blog post on faculty collaboration

• Meredith Farkas blog series: Thoughts at Mid-Career Part 1 – Letting Go, Questioning, and Pathfinding

Thank you to the Twitter users we quoted this episode:  @melodylynn457

Here's where you can find us: https://librariansguidetoteaching.weebly.com/

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Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go 

In this episode, Amanda and Jessica discuss both the practical and theoretical ideas behind the future of information literacy. Will librarians always teach information literacy? Will it ever be fully adopted into higher ed curriculum and only taught by faculty? 

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So many potential answers to these questions are institution specific depending on culture, relationships and contexts. Faculty have a lot of discipline-specific content to cover which is where their expertise lies and since librarians are the research/information experts, this should remain our responsibility. Due to institutional contexts, one-shots can’t always be replaced with a full credit course and if only taught early in their college careers, students would not receive discipline specific instruction. Librarians remain up to date on the technology of research which takes that off of the faculty. And many faculty don’t have to do research on their own so they may not want to learn all of that to teach students. Many posit that we are in a “third wave” of information literacy. Since information is our discipline area, librarians remain up to date with these changes, its impact on society and how to best approach these changes pedagogically (i.e. - ACRL Framework changes). 

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Thank you to the Twitter users we quoted this episode: @LibraryBon 

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Podcast: @Librarian_Guide 

Jessica: @LibraryGeek611 

Amanda: @HistoryBuff820 

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In this episode, Amanda and Jessica discuss some of the most common classroom management challenges faced by instruction librarians and chat about strategies to overcome them. 

Topics Discussed & Takeaways: 

Instruction librarians may not have degrees in education but that doesn’t mean they can’t succeed in classroom management. 

Five areas of classroom management challenges: 

Getting and keeping students engaged 

Getting students to participate 

Engaging distracted students & keeping everyone on task 

Dealing with difficult students 

Handling technical difficulties and interruptions 

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Thank you to the Twitter users we quoted this episode: @Overthrowinged @WoodsieGirl 

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Podcast: @Librarian_Guide 

Jessica: @LibraryGeek611 

Amanda: @HistoryBuff820 

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In this episode, Amanda and Jessica interview Romel Espinel and discuss his approaches to critical librarianship in the classroom. We discuss teaching styles, student centered practices and practical examples of how to implement these strategies in the classroom. 

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On this episode of The Librarian's Guide to Teaching, Amanda and Jessica respond to a recent article published about academic libraries and what students really want. They also share a tweet of the week. 

***Note: The article is discussed with a bit of snark at times but we focus on positive takeaways around library assessment, institutional culture and meeting the needs of students.

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Podcast: @Librarian_Guide

Jessica: @LibraryGeek611

Amanda: @HistoryBuff820

Email: [email protected]