In 2016, a team of librarians at Oklahoma State University (OSU) recognized the critical need for undergraduate information literacy instruction due to an “increasingly uncertain information landscape.”  “They wouldn’t put it on the internet if it wasn’t true:  Information, Society, Trust and Technology in a ‘Post-Truth’ World” was created to meet this need and offered through the OSU honors college.  The course was first taught in 2017 and a data literacy component taught by a data librarian was added for the 2020-21 academic year.  The data literacy module is an active learning activity.  Students are asked to evaluate information in their roles as data consumers, using the same critical thinking skills as those taught for evaluating news and popular media. Using a topic of current interest, students evaluate and discuss the impacts of access, use, creation and dissemination of data as an information source.<br/>This presentation will examine the alignment of data and information literacy and the ways that educators can teach data evaluation skills in the context of any discipline.

Teaching undergraduates to be effective data consumers using information literacy tools

ACS Fall 2021

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