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Beyond Passive Learning: Utilizing Active Learning Tools for Engagement, Reflection, and Creation
Joseph P. Healey Library Publications
  • Teresa E. Maceira, University of Massachusetts Boston
  • Danitta A. Wong, University of Massachusetts Boston
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-1-2017
Abstract

The twenty-first-century student frequently engages with mobile environments to fulfill his or her information needs. Reports from the Pew Research Center (Duggan, 2015) indicate an increasing trend in the use of mobile social media platforms in the US adult population. According to the report, Social Media Usage: 2005–2015 (2015), 65 percent of American adults use social networking sites, and young adults (ages 18–29) reported the highest social media usage for all age groups, at 90 percent. Among the young adult age group, social media usage in 2005 was reported to be 12 percent (Perrin, 2015). This sharp 650 percent rise illustrates the increasingly networked environment inhabited by young adults. In an effort to engage students in the online environment they frequent, educators at the University of Massachusetts Boston utilized iPads to integrate mobile technology into library instruction and other teaching initiatives.

This chapter will discuss activities that integrate iPads into library instruction and highlight the use of research guides, web-based polling, gaming pedagogy, online surveys, and other web-based applications for academic research that participants directly engage with, reflect upon, and use to create information in transformative ways.

Comments

This article was published as a chapter in Mobile Technology and Academic Libraries: Innovative Services for Research and Learning, edited by Robin Canuel and Chad Crichton for ACRL, and published by the Association of College and Research Libraries. To learn more about this book, visit http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=12108.

Community Engaged/Serving
No, this is not community-engaged.
Publisher
American Library Association
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Citation Information
Maceira, Teresa E. and Danitta A. Wong. "Beyond Passive Learning: Utilizing Active Learning Tools for Engagement, Reflection, and Creation." Mobile Technology and Academic Libraries: Innovative Services for Research and Learning, edited by Robin Canuel and Chad Crichton for ACRL, Association of College and Research Libraries, 2017, 73-89. http://scholarworks.umb.edu/hlpubs/37