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Michele Santamaria and Nicole Pfannenstiel, "Information Literacy and Social Media: Empowered Student Engagement with the Acrl Framework" (ACRL, 2024)

Aug 20, 2024

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Michele Santamaria

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Nicole Pfannenstiel

Michele Santamaria is a pivotal voice in information literacy, while Nicole Pfannenstiel champions empowered student engagement. They discuss how to effectively navigate misinformation by teaching adaptable information evaluation skills. The conversation explores the integration of social media in educational settings, emphasizing its potential to enhance student engagement and critical thinking. They also delve into students' online identities, the importance of responsible digital citizenship, and the development of concrete lesson plans that promote authentic interaction with digital platforms.

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Intro

00:00 • 3min

Empowering Learners through Social Media

02:42 • 24min

Reframing Social Media: Engaging Students in Academic Spaces

26:43 • 2min

Navigating Online Identities

28:42 • 10min

Navigating Information Literacy in the Digital Age

38:16 • 6min

Mastering Social Media Engagement

44:39 • 6min

Exploring Social Media's Impact on Education and Engagement

50:42 • 4min

Teaching our students how to become flexible and accurate evaluators of information requires teaching them adaptable processes and not static heuristics. Our conventional information literacy teaching and learning tools are simply not up to tackling the life-long, real-world challenges and transferable applications required by today's evolving information landscape.

Information Literacy and Social Media: Empowered Student Engagement with the ACRL Framework (ACRL, 2024) by Michele Santamaria and A. Nicole Pfannenstiel (2024, ACRL) provides librarians and non-librarian practitioners with ways to teach and learn with social media. It addresses how to broadly conceptualize information literacy teaching with social media and allay any student reluctance to using social media for academic purposes. It proposes how to map some of the ACRL threshold concepts onto specific social media platforms, including Facebook, X, Instagram, and TikTok, while providing general guidance for if and when those platforms change. There are eight concrete, cross-disciplinary lesson plans that factor in design, assessment, and student engagement. Finally, the book considers how up-and-coming platforms might empower students to be critical content creators and encourage librarians and faculty to support and create new information literacy initiatives on their campuses. Information Literacy and Social Media demonstrates how to engage students with and through social media platforms and teach them to embrace their role as information creators through engagement with the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. This is the step that they must take to truly be metaliterate in the creative and ethical ways that make information literacy an essential college competency.

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Michele Santamaría is the Learning Design Librarian at Millersville University.

Nicole Pfannenstiel, PhD., is a student-centered faculty member of the English & World Languages department at Millersville University.

Dr. Michael LaMagna is the Information Literacy Program & Library Services Coordinator and Professor of Library Services at Delaware County Community College.

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