Make an evaluation check: Encounters between information sources in a bracket-style competition

We will pit participants against each other in a battle to determine the most authoritative source for shifting information needs. Join us in playing, revising, and adapting a lightning-fast instructional game in which students have to evaluate and defend the authority of an information source for a given “encounter”. Workshop participants will develop a scalable bracket activity which acts as a gateway for students to enter the scholarly conversation, demonstrates that information needs are highly contextual, and shows that information literacy can have high stakes for you and your party.

This is a hands-on workshop in which participants will participate in the activity and then work in small groups to adapt the activity for use at their own library.

Participants will leave the session with an innovative, unique activity that they have customized for teaching information literacy at their institution, whether in a one-shot session, integrated in a course, as a workshop, or something else!