It has an easy-to-use, customizable visual presentation. A padlet is a blank board and can be a collaborative space or simply a space to share information. Padlet ( ) is a digital bulletin board app available for iOS and Android phones and works with the Google Chrome web browser. We hope these ideas will enable you to feel free to experiment with meeting your learners where they are. So we chose four apps that are free, easy-to-use, and effective for engaging our learners. Routine can become rote, and rote isn’t a far step from boring. However, what is comfortable can become routine. Often, instructors use what is comfortable and familiar to them. We also think trying something new can reinvigorate your instruction. We acknowledge that mobile apps are not always the best tool for accomplishing your learning outcomes. Each short review addresses the pros and cons of each app, provides a teaching example, and notes a specific Framework connection. We have reviewed four mobile apps that work well when teaching students and addressing the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. We propose expanding that to meeting them where they reside in the digital landscape, and, increasingly, that involves an app-based environment on a personal device. When we talk about meeting students “where they are,” we are typically referring to teaching to a student’s skill-level. When we look around our libraries, students are routinely using their phones, tablets, and laptops as the basic tools for their research, and they seem to be online more often than not. In a March 2018 study, Pew reported that 77% of Americans go online daily, with 26% of that group stating that they are “almost constantly” online, and 43% noting that they go online several times a day. 2 Spending time online also cuts across generations. 1 Tablets are also common, with 64% of Gen Xers and 54% of Millennials owning tablets. In the 18 to 29 age group, 94% of Americans own a smartphone, that number drops to just to 89% for ages 30 to 49. Let’s look at some recent numbers from the Pew Research Center. There is, however, one facet common to almost all of them, and it’s technology use. Our learners are as varied as the techniques we employ in information literacy classes. Abbie Basile and Sherry Matis Is there an app for that?Ī review of mobile apps for information literacy classesĪbbie Basile is engineering and physical sciences librarian at Old Dominion University, email: and Sherry Matis is research librarian I and user experience coordinator at Virginia Wesleyan University, email: 2018 Abbie Basile and Sherry Matis
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