Here is a link to the sessions: http://www.loexconference.org/program/sessions.html
Here are a few sessions that I hope to attend...
The Learning Cycle: Why Library
Instruction Fails to Stick and What We Can Do About It
Eric
Frierson (The University of Texas at Arlington)
The Learning Cycle is a method of lesson planning based on sound educational research on how people learn. Central to this method is letting students invent the core concepts themselves - in their own words and through active experience - and then applying library terminology later, once students have made the ideas their own.
In this interactive session, attendees will experience a Learning Cycle lesson in action. We will discuss the role of the librarian in meaningful learning experiences that require students to use higher level thinking skills to come up with the things they need to know themselves, empowering them to think for themselves in the future.
This session will help every kind of library instructor, from the novice to the expert, develop lesson plans that have lasting effects on student achievement. Student-centered and student-driven learning is the only way to foster authentic critical thinking and the only way to "make it stick."
"Wow-I Can Touch That?" Using Special
Collections to Expand Information Literacy
Phil Jones
and Catherine Rod (Grinnell College)
imitation of research, the soulless but correct
transcription of properly-documented sources that so many college
assignments require--is about discovery, exploration, and persisting in
the pursuit of an answer that, once finally found, blossoms like a
magician's wand--hey presto!--into a bouquet of new questions.
Current Issues Coffee Club
What's an ethnographic library study and how can it inform how we
provide library services?
"Have you ever sent out a "tweet" on the popular Twitter social media
service? Congratulations: Your 140 characters or less will now be
housed in the Library of Congress.
Disability Services provided a demonstration of Adaptive Assistive
Technology for the University Libraries on April 13, 2010 hosted by the Diversity Collaborative. Below on the blog are
materials that were made available by the Disability Services staff.
"Spring break is over. April is here. Those end-of-the-semester deadlines are not quite as distant as you think. And chances are your to-do list includes at least one research paper.