Cambridge Curriculum for Information Literacy

This workspace is for Jane Secker and Emma Coonan while they work on their Arcadia Fellowship. It's a place to store notes and ideas for the 10 weeks of our fellowship. We are based in CARET and fellows at Wolfson College. We started work on 3rd May and finish on 8th July 2011.

Notes from first meeting with John - 3rd May 2011

• Be revolutionary - aim to develop skills for where students will be in 5 years - not a catch up exercise - but a forward looking programme.
• Think about how the programme would be taught
• Think about (but don't be constrained by) staff development issues for library staff
• Set up a support group for the project

Ideas to discuss on 10th May with John (Jane's thoughts)

- Our methodology (use of interviews with key information literacy people and others),

- use of literature to inform curriculum

- Need to find out more about school librarians work and IL curriculum in secondary schools? Sarah Pavey and Nikki Heath both very knowledgable school librarians who would be worth interviewing

- What about a questionnaire to reach a wider audience?

- concerns about keeping the project managable in 10 weeks.

Notes from Initial brainstorm

We used a whiteboard to capture all our first thoughts here. Jane attended a lunchtime seminar organised by Libby Tilley on 4th May and some notes she wrote are here. Jane also wrote some ideas about what a new curriculum might look like here.

Project aims and objectives and a short blurb are currently being written here.

Milestones and timescales:

You can find out milestones and project timescales here.

1) Literature review / catch up - 6-9th May and on going

2) Best practice review - 6th - 13th May and on going

3) Expert consultation - pilot on 13th May with RIN Information Working Group

4) Expert consultation - interviews - 16th - 27th May

5) First draft outline - 8th June (show to Laura Wilkinson from Oxford)

6) Plan next stage and revise

7) Consultation with expert / Cambridge / LSE group for reactions to curriculum - 13th - 20th June - at CARET (in meeting room with lunch?)

8) Final curriculum ready by 8th July

Dissemination ideas

An event of some kind before the end of the project to bounce ideas of some of the experts in this field - see above.