More Than Meets the Algorithm: First-Year Students and the AI Effect on Information by

primeau8 — 2025-08-11 16:27:09 UTC

Pick one of the three themes we spoke about
In a group, or individually, consider how you would respond to the scenario aligned with each theme.
Respond with suggestions on how you (or your group) could incorporate your response into the current information literacy strategies at your institution.

primeau8 — 2025-08-11 16:41:07 UTC

Several students have found images on the web to incorporate into their presentation, but need to cite them. They want to know how they check if their images are real; what should they do? Where should they start?

blocksidge_3 — 2025-09-10 16:35:26 UTC

A professor has asked you to visit her class; her graduate student are working on detailed search strategies for a comprehensive literature review; they have used CoPilot, Gemini, and ChatGPT to develop search terms and search statements. However, when they use those search statements in article databases, they aren't finding results that match their research questions. Can you help?

primeau8 — 2025-09-10 18:47:13 UTC

An instructor comes you looking for help. They share that the quality of resources their students are sharing has decreased from previous years. The instructor suspects students are using AI to generate them without checking for even basic relevance... or if they even exist. They hoped you would be able to provide some support, either in the form of an in-class visit or a learning object to help students, or even something else, they are desperate!

ibt022 — 2025-09-22 10:57:41 UTC

Use image checker for AI? Or google image search?

2025-09-22 10:58:06 UTC

Use Google Reverse Image search to check origin/authenticity

2025-09-22 11:00:16 UTC

If they use an AI generated image, they should be transparent about it, cite it correctly, maybe using a citation tool

2025-09-22 11:00:49 UTC

Instruct Students how to search for public Domain images like databases as pixabay

2025-09-22 11:01:10 UTC

Use ColourBox or another image database that the university subscribes to.

2025-09-22 11:03:06 UTC

Teach students about AI works and compare to search engines and databases.

ibt022 — 2025-09-22 11:04:03 UTC

1. Giving them a task/ instr. advice, a theme that fits the subjects and let them serach different AI tools, and then compare and discuss results. Not the same sources ...

1.5 Everyone tries searching in AI tools, find they are not reproducible

2. Double check in database or catalogues, compare what we find in AI tool and f.ex. PubMed? Increase their knolwedge on subject-specific databases, understanding these difference

What do you conclude now, from getting different results - the problem of relevance? Important - or arbitrary?
Your intellectual capacity helps you identify the most relevant sources
Better basic training in library systems

2025-09-22 11:04:39 UTC

I would ask for a class visit. I would then Show examples of how the AI tool returns wrong results. Then show students how to use the library databases. Also show them how a correct citation looks like

ibt022 — 2025-09-22 11:06:46 UTC

Use own intellectual capacity to assess tools! Trust in themselves, and in the subject librarians!

Where did they get the list of search terms?

Use a thesaurus?

2025-09-22 11:06:47 UTC

Explain how keywords, boolean operators work. Have them do a brainstorm session on keywords