I attended Library Camp NYC this week at Brooklyn College.

Jonathan Cope facilitated this session. What follows are my random notes taken during the session.

Critical Pedagogy

Paulo Freire

active and engaged subjects
not a banking model
sage educator implanting knowledge
collaboration
engagement in the social world, educator as facilitator

authority-subject authority-peer reviewing
does consensus give value?

Who am I to tell students _____?

peer review
variables
evidence-based medicine
more about acclimating to academia than finding the articles alone
just because it is peer-reviewed, does that make it good?

Information Literacy
SMART learning (o no!)
showing is diff from learning
“shoulds”
answer questions in groups using different resources (one use one database, one uses another, then they tell you what the strengths and weaknesses are)
how do we teach more in less time? Or a one-off?
Skills-teach through tutorials and then actually teach and do higher level work in class
technical skills or critical thinking-and whose goals are we trying to meet? And what are the measurables?
The role of questioning is as important as measuables-and yet this is a measuable/deliverable?
ACRL competency standards
how many schools don't know the outcome of their instruction?
Have the group generate their needs in a session and then the librarians work from that?
Crummy assignments
how would you find and trust info if your mother had cancer?
Do students go to college to make more money? How does this factor into instruction? And learning?