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Empathy-driven What emoji describes how you feel about doing academic research right now?

Examples

Online Learning “This is not great” slide

during a Pandemic,
Black Lives Matter
Uprising, 2020
Presidential Election, Library worksheet
and, and, and… I used Poll Everywhere to check in with students during synchronous online one-shot lessons.

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Acknowledge our full lives

Background • Say that things are not great in the world when they are indeed not great
Teaching information literacy online in fall • Start with a confidential check in question
Video playlist
2020 was…difficult. I drew on multiple
sources to center empathy in my pedagogy
to make research less daunting for UNC-CH
undergraduates in first-year writing courses.
Non-Cognitive Predictors of Student Success:
Foster authentic research interests A Predictive Validity Comparison Between Domestic and International Students

Sources • When appropriate, show how you would choose a personally meaningful topic
Cooke, N. A. (2020). Critical library
• Prioritize topic development activities
instruction as a pedagogical tool. Reflections
Communications in Information Literacy,
Centering empathy can lower the
14(1), 86-96.
stakes of virtual learning. This can
https://doi.org/10.15760/comminfolit.2020.14 increase student engagement with
.1.7 Account for trauma-centered narratives library staff during and after class
sessions.
• Include content warnings if working with difficult subject matter or material
hooks, b. (2014). Teaching to transgress:
• Let students, especially students of color, choose to engage with difficult material We can use online strategies during
Education as the practice of freedom.
in-person instruction.
Routledge. • Include alternative resources and activities that do not center traumatic narratives
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203700280 Centering empathy in learning
design is challenging but can
Klipfel, K. M., & Cook, D. B. (2017). Learner- improve learning and teaching
Provide multiple ways for students to engage experience.
centered pedagogy: Principles and practice.
ALA Editions. • Record lesson if possible I completed this work in my former
• Let students participate via chat, confidential prompts, and or audio role as a Carolina Academic Library
Torres, J., & Stivers, J. (2020, June 24). Associate at UNC Chapel Hill which
• Share your slide deck began in fall 2019 and continued
Healing reading trauma: rebuilding a love of
through spring 2021.
reading through libraries for liberation. • Include worksheet to scaffold research process
[Conference session]. ALA Virtual - • Convert long recording into short, captioned video playlist (asynchronous)
Community Through Connection
Conference, online.

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