Ideas for Critical Resistance by Eamon Tewell https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism In conjunction with the session "From Value to Values: Information Literacy, Capitalism, and Resistance," presented at ACRL 2019, Cleveland, Ohio. en-us 2019-03-24 15:51:52 UTC 2020-01-20 02:13:37 UTC hello@padlet.com Presenters eamontewell https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/344595728 Romel Espinel, @cudjoe70
Nora Almeida, @nora_almeida
Eamon Tewell, @eamontewell
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, @lisalibrarian
]]> 2019-03-24 19:03:27 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/344595728 Goal of this document eamontewell https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/344596361 To suggest actions to take that challenge information literacy’s service to capital. This document will act as an ongoing resource for sharing ideas and inspiration regarding the resistance of capitalism within information literacy practice.

How can we re-imagine information literacy as a site of critical resistance? 
]]> 2019-03-24 19:07:59 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/344596361 Info privilege and open access https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/344597963 Introduce students to things like open access and information privilege, and work with faculty to develop OERs and put their work in institutional repositories]]> 2019-03-24 19:18:55 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/344597963 eamontewell https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/344598262 Embrace the paradox of resisting capitalism while helping prepare students to succeed in capitalist systems]]> 2019-03-24 19:20:50 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/344598262 Redefine information literacy https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/344598444 (in theory and practice)]]> 2019-03-24 19:22:09 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/344598444 Use your time with students to question systems and "the way things are done" https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/344598777 2019-03-24 19:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/344598777 Find ways to teach on two levels https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/344598891 how to find articles, etc. but also address what knowledge is prioritized and made available]]> 2019-03-24 19:25:16 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/344598891 Intentional language https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315511 Stop using phrases such as "consumers of information."

]]> 2019-04-12 21:05:33 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315511 https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315624 Question the privileging of scholarly sources]]> 2019-04-12 21:06:21 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315624 Analytics https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315659 Don’t use instructional analytics from third parties that collect data about our students]]> 2019-04-12 21:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315659 lauracameron_msis https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315673 Talk to students openly and directly about the capitalist structures behind the information sources they use ]]> 2019-04-12 21:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315673 Educating for Communal Agency https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315674 Find ways to resist the individualism inherent in IL when working with students in the classroom.]]> 2019-04-12 21:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315674 https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315694 Talk about what open access means in fy writing instruction and what they lose access to upon graduation.]]> 2019-04-12 21:06:52 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315694 https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315711 Critique colonialist controlled vocabularies]]> 2019-04-12 21:06:59 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315711 https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315715 Always covering anticopyright and copyleft while teaching fair use (and the history of fair use statutes and their relationship to capitalism)]]> 2019-04-12 21:07:00 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315715 https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315776 Mention academic capitalism by name!]]> 2019-04-12 21:07:28 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315776 Provide an information context https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315816 Acknowledge the context in which the information session is happening. Acknowledge what institution we are at and how it works. Identify why we want students to use these databases. They aren’t free. They’re included with the price of tuition, for example.]]> 2019-04-12 21:07:44 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315816 Voices https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315837 note what voices are included/excluded... what kinds of papers are NOT published ]]> 2019-04-12 21:07:52 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315837 https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315838 Empowering students to contribute to Wikipedia! Including using resources from our library collections. ]]> 2019-04-12 21:07:52 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315838 https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315865 Tell students how their content/data is being used for profit]]> 2019-04-12 21:08:00 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315865 https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315939 Discuss how media frame stories, e.g., the NFL protests...and what would we consider an authoritative source on such a topic? Not just scholarly sources...also primary sources in popular media, etc.]]> 2019-04-12 21:08:33 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315939 wclaibourne https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315945 Themes of research related to 10 billion people on the planet soon]]> 2019-04-12 21:08:36 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315945 lauracameron_msis https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315950 Challenge students to critically examine who is allowed to participate in scholarly conversation]]> 2019-04-12 21:08:42 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351315950 https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316027 take opportunity when patrons have to ILL things to have a conversation about why the library can't (afford) access to the thing, introduce things like unpaywall ... ]]> 2019-04-12 21:09:21 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316027 Go gradeless https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316071 Learn about the roots of grades and grading in the early history of the modern university. Read the research on their effect on learning, and share this with students. Do what you can to eliminate grades in your instruction, and take the conversation about learning beyond the transactional.]]> 2019-04-12 21:09:40 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316071 Cite marginalized folks. https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316094 Like Eamon demonstrated, cite women. Cite Indigenous folks. Cite Black people. Cite those who are undercited. All the time.]]> 2019-04-12 21:09:52 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316094 Don't reinforce the Google monopoly https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316143 Stop saying do a Google search when you mean do a www search. There are other search engines like duckduckgo that don't engage in surveillance capitalism.]]> 2019-04-12 21:10:15 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316143 Publishing costs and processes https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316145 Talk about publishing costs and processes. Students often love these discussions and it gets them to think more deeply about the databases even if the library instruction focuses on them. Connect it with data collection by vendors in and out of the library. I.e. Google, Amazon ]]> 2019-04-12 21:10:16 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316145 https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316196 Remind students of their agency and value as in change agents in sciety and explore alternative histories  in the context of their place in a future history]]> 2019-04-12 21:10:38 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316196 Information + ambiguity https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316219 In conversations with students/faculty and in one-shots, resisting the idea that there's a "perfect" answer or source (seems like a consumerist demand!). Inquiry and labor required to work *with* a source and/or to think their way to an answer *using* information.]]> 2019-04-12 21:10:39 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316219 https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316389 Discuss fake news in relation to propaganda & what happens when people rely on a single source of information... whether in a dictatorship or in their own family]]> 2019-04-12 21:12:06 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316389 Not-neutrality studies https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316418 Shift narrative from information literacy to more of an interrogation of how libraries and information are not neutral. ]]> 2019-04-12 21:12:17 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316418 Public Good Documents https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316437 Introduce information sources such as those from governmental and public agencies that provide information... data, best practices and guidance from experience and research, case studies, etc. that are often free and are more “valuable” than commercially published sources of information.]]> 2019-04-12 21:12:26 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316437 https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316512 Teach skepticism: of “fake news,” of “efficiency”, of big tech and surveillance. ]]> 2019-04-12 21:13:01 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316512 https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316517 Tell students not just how they can use information literacy so they can consume information "correctly" and spit it out uncritically for a grade but that it will help them create their own works of scholarship that can spur change.]]> 2019-04-12 21:13:03 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351316517 lifelong information access https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351345377 Let students know that the public libraries & state libraries offer free access to fee based [database] services with a library card. Encourage them to be life long information gatherers with these and other resources - including primary sources digitally available from many repositories. ]]> 2019-04-13 03:36:58 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/351345377 "Why is the library website a pain to use?" https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/352152418 We use products from competing companies, so they're intentionally made to not speak to each other. Explaining this to students may reduce library anxiety/shame, and encourage them to ask for help.]]> 2019-04-16 23:03:21 UTC https://padlet.com/eamontewell/Ilcapitalism/wish/352152418