LOEX 2025

Want to keep your instruction relevant for the future by increasing student interest? One way to engage and motivate students is to connect information literacy to their everyday lives. This session features activities that identify and expand upon students' information literacy skills outside of college, including process maps, discussions about experts in their own lives, and real-life research assignments where students write to their legislators, prepare remarks for a school board meeting, create a lesson plan, and much more! Participants will leave with ideas for transforming one of their own lessons to connect it to students' everyday lives.

Participants will:
1. Identify three benefits of connecting information literacy (IL) to everyday tasks outside of college, particularly for BIPOC, first-generation, and low-income students
2. Recognize in everyday life tasks the knowledge practices and dispositions from the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education
3. Reimagine a lesson they teach to connect it to IL to everyday tasks