Monday, June 22, 2015

Ask the Masses: Analyzing and Understanding Scholarly Journal Articles

We are posting a few of the questions from the Solution or Sympathy portion of the IL Interest Group session held during the spring 2015 IPAL Conference. There were several wonderful questions that were submitted but, unfortunately, we ran out of time to discuss them all. Leave your solution or sympathy response in the comments and help keep the great sharing going!

Helping students to analyze scholarly journal articles. What to focus on? How to assess their abilities in reading and evaluating them?

Share your ideas in the comments!

Monday, June 8, 2015

Ask the Masses: Laptops and Student Distraction

We are posting a few of the questions from the Solution or Sympathy portion of the IL Interest Group session held during the spring 2015 IPAL Conference. There were several wonderful questions that were submitted but, unfortunately, we ran out of time to discuss them all. Leave your solution or sympathy response in the comments and help keep the great sharing going!

Students glued to laptops. Current response: Have them turn it off or sit in front row. Note: since I prefer to take notes on a computer, I do not deny students this opportunity. It is the students who are obviously “gone” that I address.  Which other approaches are there?

Share your ideas in the comments!