Retooling Refocusing Rethinking: Promoting Online Information Literacy in the New Normal for Sustainable Development – Meet the Speakers for Q&A
When: 18 August 2021 (Zoom Discussion Room 3, Time: 4:30PM – 5:00PM GMT)
This session provides an opportunity for educators and librarians to review past challenges and experiences with consideration to the recent changes made to online modality in teaching and services due to the pandemic. Both theoretical and practical aspects such as pedagogies, technologies, accessibility, outcome and assessment will be discussed. The goals are as follows:
- To provide a platform that enables innovation, learning, and professional development in information literacy teaching practices.
- To enable library users to become lifelong learners with the skills to thrive economically and socially in a technological society through improvement of their information literacy skills.
- To make a positive impact on people and society by meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Presentations and Speakers:
- Retooling media and information literacy under UN SDG for pandemic times
Dr. Jesus Lau
Professor, Faculty of Pedagogy
Universidad Veracruzana
México
- Shifting teaching online in a time of crisis: critical perspectives from Uruguay and the UK
Dr. Jane Secker
Senior Lecturer in Educational Development
City, University of London
United Kingdom
Dr. Virginia Rodes
UNECO Chair on Open Education Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Virtual Learning Environment Program
University of the Republic
Uruguay
- Designing for Engagement and Achievement in an Online Environment
Dr. Laura Saunders
Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science
Simmons University
United States
- Cultivating Media and Information Literacy to Overcome Digital Use Divide in Emerging Smart Cities
Dr. Alice Y. L. Lee
Professor, Department of Journalism
Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong
Moderator:
Dr. Min Chou
Professor / Assistant Director in the Library
New Jersey City University
United States
Contact:
Dr. Min Chou, Chair, IFLA Information Literacy Section <minchou.njcu@gmail.com>