Critical Thinking in a Service-Learning Course:  Impacts of Information Literacy Instruction

Kennedy, Heather; Gruber, Anne Marie

doi:10.15760/comminfolit.2020.14.2.3

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“…Critical thinking skills was also required in order to avoid students to create Hoax and misunderstanding of information . The importance of library instruction to students' critical thinking skills and suggest implications for collaborations between discipline faculty and library faculty in service-learning courses (Kennedy & Gruber, 2020).…”

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Teaching the 21st Century Skills (4Cs) in English Literacy Activities

Ratama

Padmadewi

Artini

2021

JERE

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Literacy program has been echoed by the Minister of education and culture since 2015. Teaching other skills in the implementation of literacy activities are crucial to prepare the students to compete in working field, especially in Vocational School. This study aimed to investigate (1) the kinds of English literacy activities implemented in SMKN 1 Singaraja, (2) how to teach the 21st century skills (4Cs) in English literacy activities in SMKN 1 Singaraja which consisted of preparation, steps and assessment of the 4Cs skills, (3) Teachers’ challenges while teaching the 21st century skills (4Cs) in English literacy activities in SMKN 1 Singaraja. The design of this research was descriptive qualitative. The setting of this research was SMKN 1 Singaraja and the subjects of this research were 120 students and 3 teachers in this school. The techniques of data collection were observation, interview, note taking, document analysis and documentation. The finding showed that (1) there were five English literacy activities implemented in this school namely, reading response journal, news reading program, guiding object commentary, travel itinerary writing and cooperative literacy program. (2) In the implementation of those English literacy activities, the teachers taught the 21st century skills (4Cs). In reading response journal, the 21st century skills taught were critical thinking, collaboration and communication skills. In news reading program and cooperative literacy program, all of those 21st century skills (4Cs) were taught. In, guiding object commentary, there were three 21st century skills were taught namely critical thinking, creativity and communication skills. At last, there were three skills were taught in travel itinerary writing namely critical thinking, collaboration and creativity skills (3) In teaching the 21st century skills, the teachers still had challenges in teaching critical thinking, collaboration and communication skills. There was no challenge in teaching creativity skill in English literacy activities. This research was expected to be beneficial for the policymaker, schools, and teachers who had big effort in implementing effective literacy program in schools. Those activities and ways of teaching the 21st century skills could be adopted in order to enhance the level of literacy program.

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Teaching the 21st Century Skills (4Cs) in English Literacy Activities

Ratama

Padmadewi

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2021

JERE

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“…However, the impact and importance of these findings vary in relation to the methods employed. Although pre/post-tests can support direct measures of student learning, they can also be used to gather indirect measures 7 —as is the case with Grigg and Dale (2017) as well as Kennedy and Gruber (2020) . On the other hand, research like that of Price et al (2011) uses the pre/post-test methodology to measure student learning directly via questions that test students' IL competencies.…”

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A silver lining for pandemic-weary libraries: How blended and flipped instructional programs have improved upon pre-pandemic norms

Walker

2022

The Journal of Academic Librarianship

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“…Coonan et al (2018) in CILIP Definition of Information Literacy 2018 stated that Information literacy is the ability to think critically and make balanced judgements about any information we find and use. Seifi et al ( 2020) & (Kennedy & Gruber, 2020) in their studies discussed the effectiveness of information literacy instruction on lifelong learning readiness. Within the National Information Literacy Agenda (NILA), the information literacy framework for Malaysia was proposed in the study conducted by (Edzan & Sharif, 2005) where every library has roles and responsibilities to conduct and deliver information literacy programmes.…”

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The Impact of Information Literacy Programme to Rural Communities in Lifelong Learning for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Malaysia

Abidin¹,

Ahmad²,

Arsad³

2022

IJARBSS

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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) listed Quality Education and lifelong learning as Goal 4 from intersectional and integrated 17 goals. Rural libraries have been serving the local communities since 2005 as lifelong learning agents that offer various services including Information Literacy Programme which will improve self-development skills in reading by the public on a daily basis. The frequencies of the programme done by rural libraries and facilities provided might influence and contribute to the lifelong learning process. sThis study will investigate the impact of the Information Literacy Programme done by rural libraries to the rural communities' lifelong learning. Closed-ended questionnaires will be distributed to 125 rural libraries in Northern Region of Malaysia as targeted respondents. Collected data will be analysed using SPSS and the findings will encourage stakeholders to upgrade and improve the services and facilities in rural libraries.

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Critical Thinking in a Service-Learning Course: Impacts of Information Literacy Instruction

Cited by 11 publications

References 23 publications

Teaching the 21st Century Skills (4Cs) in English Literacy Activities

Teaching the 21st Century Skills (4Cs) in English Literacy Activities

A silver lining for pandemic-weary libraries: How blended and flipped instructional programs have improved upon pre-pandemic norms

The Impact of Information Literacy Programme to Rural Communities in Lifelong Learning for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Malaysia

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