Tag Archives: literacy

Apr 9 | Teaching information literacy for the 21st century

March 22, 2014ReadingsAAC&U, ACRL, christine borgman, data deluge, digital age, information literacy, literacyJulie Sievers

Assigned readings

Borgman, Christine. ”Chapter 1: Scholarship at a Crossroads.” In Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. (attached to the email announcement).
“Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.” Association of College and Research Libraries, 2000.

Suggestions for further reading

Hey, Tony and Anne Trefethen. ”The Data Deluge: An e-Science Perspective.” In Grid Computing – Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality. Chichester, UK: Wiley, 2003.
AAC&U VALUE Rubric for Information Literacy.

Feb 19 | Teaching Quantitative Literacy Across the Curriculum

February 7, 2014Readingsliteracy, numeracy, quantitative literacy, rhetoric, rubric, statistics, writingJulie Sievers

Assigned Readings

The Preface – “Mathematics, Numeracy, and Democracy” (xiii-xix) + Chapter 1: “The Case for Quantitative Literacy,” (1-19) from Mathematics and Democracy (2001).
Wolfe, Joanna. “Rhetorical Numbers: A Case for Quantitative Writing in the Composition Classroom.” College Composition and Communication 61 (2010): 434-457.
AAC&U VALUE Rubric for Quantitative Literacy

Suggestions for Further Reading

The St. Edward’s Proposal for QL project, as submitted to the NSF in 2012. (2 pgs).
Madison, Bernard & Lynn Steen, eds. Quantitative Literacy: Why Numeracy Matters for Schools and Colleges. National Council on Education and the Disciplines, 2003.