Dear ALISE 2011 attendees:

Please join the Information Ethics SIG for a panel discussion on

"Innovations and Challenges in Teaching Information Ethics Across Contexts"
Wednesday, January 5
10:30am - noon


In keeping with the 2011 ALISE conference theme of “Competitiveness and Innovation,” the Information Ethics SIG submits this panel discussion to highlight innovations – and challenges – in teaching information ethics across multiple contexts.

While much substantive work has focused on ensuring information ethics is properly integrated in LIS graduate curricula, this panel seeks to broaden this scope by fostering a discussion in how to best incorporate information ethics education across diverse educational contexts, and how to develop innovative educational methods to overcome the challenges these contexts inevitably present.

The panel discussion to take the form of a guided conversation between six featured panelists and the audience, addressing the following set of diverse, yet interconnected, issues:

-       How can the ALISE Guidelines for Ethics in LIS Education be integrated into LIS curricula in both traditional face-to-face and innovative online contexts?

-       What challenges do archivists face when integrating information ethics into their particular educational and professional contexts, and how are newly trained archivists finding innovative ways of both addressing ethical dilemmas, as well as integrating those lessons into educational programs?

-       What are the best ways to introduce information ethics content could into school curricula for children ages 9 to 17, while negotiating concerns of parents and administrators regarding any material that may be considered controversial. What is the responsibility of librarians to advocate for the introduction of information ethics, as well as the role of LIS educators to arm librarians with innovative curricular solutions?

-       How can information ethics be introduced to new undergraduate students within the context of increasing information literacy, leveraging innovative pedagogical tools and topics already familiar to today’s undergraduate population (such as social networking sites, digital sampling, wikis, etc)?

-       What is the role of LIS education to ensure scientists and information professionals fulfill their ethical duty to provide access to scientific knowledge and innovation, as described in Article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which requires governments to: “recognize the right of everyone to…enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications” and to take steps for the “conservation, the development and the diffusion of science and culture”.

-       How must information ethics instructors recognize the particular situatedness of the teaching and learning about intellectual freedom, free flow of information, public goods, and democratic frameworks? How do we ensure LIS instructors contemplate the relationships between teaching information ethics, the importance of a free flow of information in the global academic enterprise, and aggressive marketization and internationalization of higher education?

Panelists:

Toni Carbo
Teaching Professor and iSchool Program Leader
Drexel University Center for Graduate Studies

Richard Cox
Professor in Library and Information Science
University of Pittsburgh

Kimberly Black
Assistant Professor, School of Information Science
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Ann Curry
Professor, Faculty of Education
University of Alberta

Raina Bloom
Instructor, School of Information Studies
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukew

Toni Samek
Professor, School of Library & Information Studies
University of Alberta

Michael Zimmer (Moderator)
Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee



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Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
Co-Director, Center for Information Policy Research
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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