Information Literacy for Today's Diverse Students: Differentiated Instructional Techniques for Academic Librarians

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This book helps students from diverse backgrounds and with various learning styles to master the material they learn with these practical examples for librarians teaching higher education information literacy. Cultural influences in students' livesoften tied to aspects of their background such as ethnicity, national origin, socioeconomic status, gender, and religionplay a large role in determining how they learn. Learning styles additionally differ among students, making it difficult to know how to best support all students. This book introduces academic instruction librarians to a differentiated instruction (DI) approach that will help them to offer students a choice of how to engage with course content, assess their understanding of the material, and demonstrate mastery of the material to the instructor, allowing students to actively participate in their education. It explains various instructional techniques used in DI and provides detailed, step-by-step examples for implementing educational technology tools supporting each technique. Accompanying the examples are tips for overcoming known challenges in implementation and best practices for successful adoption of the techniques. Readers will understand how to begin using the most popular types of educational technology tools for academic information literacy instruction.

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This title would be an excellent addition for any library with materials on library instruction and a must-read for instruction librarians or anyone interested in inclusive instruction methods. * ARBA *
A resource for using differentiated learning with students who have a variety of learning styles. * American Libraries *

Author Bio

Alex Berrio Matamoros is an educational technology consultant and principal at AXBM EdTech.