Article ID: 46105
In recent years, teacher training programs have incorporated classes that are designed to cultivate information literacy. These seek to foster the ability to effectively use ICT and instruct others to do so. University courses also call for study based on active learning. To accomplish both these objectives, I developed and implemented an active learning syllabus and lesson design for the first-year courses Information Literacy 1 and 2 taking student agency (hereafter, “agency”) into account. For this study, I surveyed students’ sense of their ICT use and instruction ability at three instances: near the beginning of the courses, midway through the courses, and near the end of the courses. At the end of the school year, I also investigated the levels of agency related to these courses. The data gathered established both degrees of agency and changes in ICT use and instruction awareness, and I calculated the correlation between these two things. The results revealed that students’ perceived ICT use and instruction ability increased over the course of the year. A certain degree of correlation was also found.
