Three red flags for “evidenced-based” EdTech - LSE Impact Natalia I. Kucirkova outlines three ways claims about "evidence based" EdTech can be misleading and instrumentalised as part of market entry strategies.

👀ICYMI: "What emerges may look like evidence, but it primarily measures uptake"

#EdTech #Education #InfoLit

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Check out the April issue of "C&RL News" for articles on introverts and library instruction, tracking tenure progress, upcoming revisions to the Framework for #InfoLit, communicating for meaningful change, and more. https://bit.ly/4tncqmD

Fabulous three days at the LILAC Conference with lots of networking and an international audience! It was nice to be back in Sheffield again, while the hotel must have known I like football with the view from my room! #LILAC26 #infolit #digilit #usered

Join @ljwilliams.bsky.social in Seminar Room 5 making a case for turning attention
to #infolit practices in risky leisure activities through the provocation of ‘all mushrooms are edible but some only once’. #LILAC26

Adair Harper & Ashley Edwards are in Workroom 1 introducing the context for decolonial instruction at @sfu.ca Library, outlining the First Peoples Principles of Learning, & providing initial reflections on incorporating Indigenous-informed pedagogy into #infolit instruction. #LILAC26

Abby Waterhouse is in Lecture Theatre 1 sharing a #infolit module designed for year 7 & 8 students to develop skills such as finding, evaluating & citing sources, and then produce a game to teach these skills to others. #LILAC26

Join @pammckinney.bsky.social, Sheila Webber & Pete Holdridge in Workroom 2 as @sheffielduni.bsky.social tutors outline #infolit (IL) teaching activities and assessments, while students reflect on developing as IL instructors & how they plan to apply IL teaching in their future careers. #LILAC26

Rosalind Bucy is in Lecture Theatre 1 reporting on a Library Services and Technology Act grant project to form a cross-sector Professional Learning Community (PLC) to support #infolit for concurrent enrollment students. Bringing school librarians & an academic librarian together. #LILAC26

Sara Kern, Denise Wetzel & Elliott Rose are in Workroom 1 for session 2 of Stop, collaborate, and zine make: DIY reflection tools for #infolit practice. #LILAC26

Join Donna Beazleigh & @hallidaysarah.bsky.social in Workroom 1 as they outline their evolving, cross-departmental approach to embedding accessibility & inclusivity into service provision & #infolit at their university’s Learning Resources Centres. #LILAC26

Heather Campbell, Lea Sansom & Ashley McKeown are in Workroom 1 introducing a curriculum developed at @westernu.ca to reframe #infolit through knowledge justice. Sharing a new open education resource & practical teaching examples as a librarian, faculty member, & educational developer. #LILAC26

Join Jane Hammons & Amanda Folk in Workroom 2 as they share preliminary themes & examples from an ongoing research study focused on evaluating the effectiveness & impact of participation in an open, no-cost, online Teaching #InfoLit Certificate program facilitated by librarians. #LILAC26

Charlotte Dunn & Hakan Gunduz are in Lecture Theatre 1 sharing the recent redesign of InfoSMART, the @gsalibrary.bsky.social online #infolit modules. Exploring how collaboration between librarians & learning designers can enhance digital learning & engagement with information literacy. #LILAC26

Kacy Lundstrom & Kirsten Cox are in Seminar Room 5 exploring how librarians teach #infolit, using presentations & creative mapping to examine who does instructional work, how it’s supported, & how organisational structures can better meet evolving teaching needs. #LILAC26

As day one of #LILAC26 draws to a close, we look forward to welcoming delegates to the Firth Hall at 17:30 for our drinks reception. We can’t wait to find out who has won the 2026 @infolitgroup.bsky.social & @ucl.ac.uk Department of Information Studies #infolit Award!

Laura Williams is in Workroom 1 exploring the #infolit practices of the ultrarunning community on Instagram, focusing on the role of content creators in supporting information literacy. #LILAC26

Alexandra Hamlett is in Workroom 2 discussing the importance of creating a shared culture of teaching #infolit Demonstrating ways to frame conversations with faculty about IL & to create lesson plans. #LILAC26

Join Nadeem Siddique & Muhammad Safdar in Seminar Room 5 as they consider challenges in delivering #infolit in the artificial intelligence era from a Pakistani perspective. #LILAC26

Kate Courage & Michelle Malomo are in Lecture Theatre 4 exploring the development of a Study Skills Community of Practice, its role in leading cross-institutional collaboration, & practical strategies for leveraging CoPs to embed #infolit & study skills across the curriculum. #LILAC26

Join @jsecker.bsky.social Chris Morrison, Louise Koch, Ami Pendergrass & @awakaruk.bsky.social in Workroom 2 as the panel discusses how to tackle copyright anxiety in libraries & the benefits of approaching copyright queries as part of wider #infolit support. #LILAC26

Lea Watson is in Lecture Theatre 1 exploring how health librarians use non-lecture-based teaching methods to develop #infolit skills among healthcare professionals. #LILAC26

Join @cocolibrarian.bsky.social & @heatherlincoln.bsky.social in Seminar Room 5 as they invite librarians to imagine a post-search future, collaboratively & speculatively rethinking #infolit in a world where information is generated, not retrieved. #LILAC26

Head over to Workroom 1 to join Sara Kern, Denise Wetzel & Elliott Rose for session 1 of Stop, collaborate, and zine make: DIY reflection tools for #infolit practice. #LILAC26

LILAC LILAC is an annual conference covering all aspects of information literacy and is a firm favourite in the calendar of information professionals. The conference is brimming with new ideas, innovative t...

En route to Sheffield for #LILAC26! Looking forward to a few days of great #infolit chat 😊

Programme and details here, for anyone who wants to know what they're missing:

www.lilacconference.com/lilac-2026/c...

Submissions | Journal of Information Literacy The information on this page contains important information about formatting and submitting your work to the Journal of Information Literacy (JIL). Please make sure you follow the instructions…

Could you submit a reflective report of #LILAC26? @jinfolit.bsky.social publish #infolit conference reports. They are around 750-1500 words and contain thoughts & reflections about the main points & themes of the conference. It’s up to you what you focus on. Due by 20 April.

New Journal Article: Survey on Undergraduate Student Use of Generative #AI: Implications for Information Literacy in Academic Libraries (via C&RL) crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr... #infolit #infoliteracy #libraries #GenAI

NEW Journal Article: How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Information Literacy in Academic #Libraries: A Global Scientometric Analysis (2020–2025) www.infodocket.com/2026/03/19/n... #AI #GenAI #infolit #informationliteracy

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Join our Student Learning and Information Literacy Committee on Thursday, March 26 for the free webinar “Revising the Framework: Learn and Discuss" to learn more about the ongoing process to update the Framework for #InfoLit for Higher Education. https://bit.ly/4kWMlI9

How Kant can make sense of misinformation - LSE Impact How Kantian notions of appearances can inform misinformation interventions that address the root causes of why people believe fake news.

👀ICYMI: "Most misinformation strategies treat the problem as one of incorrect knowledge. But if the underlying issue is divergent structures of appearance, then content-level interventions are bound to fail"

#FakeNews #InfoLit #Misinformation

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Nominations close today for this year’s Information Literacy Award! You've got until 17:00 (GMT) to share the amazing #infolit work that you and your colleagues are doing. Remember you can self-nominate or nominate others. buff.ly/RC43zzP