This weeks blog is supposed to reflect on how my present project will help with information literacy.
I fear my project may not be the best for encouraging Information Literacy. I am providing students with a great deal of the material, as opposed to having them hunt down the information themselves. As such, they are certainly gaining a more sophisticated knowledge of Nazism, but they are not finding the material themselves.
Now, I have been thinking about developing the project I will theoretically implement with Dr. Soper and develop the parameters of the role playing project for my citizens project. I can forsee the role playing project definitely increasing the information literacy of the students. Each student, having been given a goal, will have to do research on their own. I can provide them with a few places to look, but they will have to find sources, both primary and secondary, separate from my suggestions. In this way they can get familiar with scouring the web, libraries, archives, etc.
In my own course on European history or Nazism, I would definitely implement both the flipped Volksgemeinschaft classroom and the role playing (reacting to history). I feel both have the potential of reaching out to students, engaging them in a different way with controversial and complex material, and hopefully create responsible citizens in the process- not to mention boost their Information Literacy....
Until Next Time,
Derrick Angermeier
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