This guide is intended to break down the Information Literacy guideline in clear and transparent language. The intent is to give instructors easy ways to incorporate this SSLO into their classrooms. The information within this guide was created collaborat
Analyze information to relate to your information need and connect with prior knowledge
Classroom Application
Activities & Exercises
Assign students to create x number of annotations within an academic text that explains things in their own words
Have students read a technical or academic article and create an illustration, play, or video narrative that relates the information to their identity
Start an oral discussion where students connect to an author's first person narrative article or chapter where the student is using "I" or "me" language
Assign an online discussion post that requires students to share their misconceptions about a topic that they had before they read an academic article they've found on their own
Success
Analyzing and Connecting Information Success
Making interdisciplinary connections between their courses
Using non-academic language to describe a scholarly idea
Finding something personal about the subject matter that they care about or can relate to
Applying the subject matter to a current or relevant problem that affects them or someone they care about
