Friday, June 21, 2019

The Role of Librarians in Supporting ICT Literacy - Lesley Farmer, EDUCAUSE

One model that captures the idea of expertise needed by academic librarians is TPACK: Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge. This model shows the kinds of knowledge needed for instruction in the Digital Age (see figure 1). Although one might think that the course instructor should possess all these knowledge bases, that isn't always the case. If TPACK is applied to instruction within a course, theoretically several people could be contributing this knowledge to the course. A good exercise is for librarians to map their knowledge onto TPACK. https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2019/5/the-role-of-librarians-in-supporting-ict-literacy