Faculty Partnerships for ICT Literacy – Diane Gozemba

Assistant Professor Diane Gozemba, Chair of the Early Childhood Education  program, championed ICT  (Information and Communication Technology) literacy on campus long before it was identified as one of the seven General Education Abilities within the College’s Ability Based Education model.  Diane has worked in partnership with Lisa Kenyon, Curriculum Support Librarian and LIS liaison to ECE, over the past five years to integrate library instruction into her courses. They have recently integrated ICT literacy throughout the ECE  curriculum, beginning in ED110: Introduction to Early Childhood Education, with the development of a subject-specific orientation for all entering ECE students. Through other specifically targeted courses across the curriculum increasingly sophisticated ICT literacy skills are addressed throughout a students program of study. 

A particularly successful venture was pursued during the fall of 2010, when Prof. Gozemba and Ms. Kenyon teamed on a co-curricular mini-grant for ED302: Social Studies in Early Childhood Education.  In this course, library instruction was delivered on the use of primary source materials in developing a social studies curriculum.  With an emphasis on the use of culturally responsible material in the classroom, students were directed to appropriate resources to gather information.   In addition to the library instruction that took place, students were taken by the instruction team to visit the Mashantucket Pequot Museum where they worked with the Museum’s librarian to learn more about investigating and identifying culturally responsible materials on Native American culture.

We highly value the enriching faculty partnerships, such as this one with Prof. Gozemba, that we are building for furthering ICT literacy within ABE and look forward to showcasing similar team efforts in the future.  We wish to thank Diane Gozemba for her commitment to ICT literacy and for supporting a terrific teaching and learning experience!

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