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"Fostering Students to be Lifelong Learners with Science Literacy, Information Literacy, and Communication Skills"

Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Librarians and faculty have been traversing on parallel paths during the past few decades.The rapid explosion of technological integration into nearly every aspect of daily life has merged the separate paths into one.Librarians and faculty must now travel in tandem in order to prepare students to become successful members of today's society.If students are to effectively contribute to today's workforce, it is imperative that they are capable of communicating, receiving, and evaluating the barrage of information from multiple directions.Highly toned information literacy skills are the key to unlocking the potential for lifelong learning.How do we teach our students to be lifelong learners?This paper shares a glimpse of how a science course instructor, librarian, and the writing center staff have dialogued for a common goal based on individual and collective teaching/learning outcomes.Science literacy, information literacy and communication skills are crucial and critical foundations for students in Engineering Technology programs to become lifelong learners.One of assignments from the University General Education course, Introductory General Chemistry, involves an integrated three-step process with discipline-specific pre-lab activity, general/customized information literacy instruction and communication skill development.This paper describes how the course instructor, librarian, and writing center staff learned from each other's reflections to make the assignment a meaningful learning experience not only for students but also for themselves through sharing the lessons learned from the evolving teaching and learning process.
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--51751
Language: English
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4407678151
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