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Connie Varnhagen
Let’s Google That:
Using the Web to Engage Students
and Promote Information Literacy
HAB and animal welfare
Standards of care
Decision-making
Companion animal overpopulation
Sheltering and rescue
Disaster
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T. Clark, AFP, 28 Oct 12
Dogs’ emotional reaction to disasterNagasawa, Mogi, & Kikusui (2012)
Dogs abandoned after Fukushima reactor
“incident”
Comparison abandoned dogs in rescue with
control stray dogs from another province
Urinary cortisol and behaviour
Urinary cortisol levels
Nagasawa et al. (2012)
Median scores on behaviour evaluation
Nagasawa et al. (2012)
Is it PTSD?
Fearful when not previously fearful
Disobedient
Hypersensitive
Recognize that information is needed
Access the information effectively and efficiently
Evaluate the information and its sources critically
Incorporate the information into one’s knowledge base
Use the information effectively
Use the information ethically and legally
Information literacy (ALA, 2000)
Why do we care about information literacy?
Value inquiry
Scaffold search
Identify sources
Critically appraise
Provide instruction
Provide assessment
Modeling information literacy in class
Broad Learning Outcomes:
Identify a research topic that can be searched
Conduct appropriate information searches
Identify appropriate resources
Critically appraise the resources
Use the information appropriately
Use the information ethically
Information literacy in 1st Year
Broad Learning Outcomes:
Identify a research topic that can be searched
Conduct appropriate information searches
Identify appropriate resources
(Critically appraise the resources)
Organize the resources appropriately
Information literacy in 4th year
How might/do you promote information literacy?
