Metaliteracy Explored at Temple University

As part of the GenEd Faculty Assembly sponsored by the General Education Program at Temple University, Trudi Jacobson and Tom Mackey facilitated a presentation and workshop entitled Metaliteracy and the Participatory Role of Learners in Today’s Social Information EnvironmentThe librarians at Temple University’s Samuel Paley Library facilitated the afternoon breakout sessions (after the eclipse) with faculty from a wide range of disciplines based on the ideas explored during the metaliteracy presentation. The discussion questions are available in this slide deck and could be applied in a variety of settings to spark similar conversations.

Metaliteracy Featured at NOLA 2017

Trudi Jacobson and Tom Mackey participated virtually as part of a panel presentation about metaliteracy and metacognition at the Fourth Annual NOLA Information Literacy Forum, sponsored by the NOLA Information Literacy Collective. In a presentation on August 11 entitled Promoting Metaliteracy and Metacognition in Collaborative Teaching and Learning, Trudi and Tom defined metaliteracy, explored the metaliteracy Learning Goals and Objectives, and discussed metaliteracy competency-based digital badging and metaliteracy MOOCs. The panel also included a learner who participated in the on-demand version of the Coursera Metaliteracy MOOC.