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Analogy as Pedagogy: Using What Students Already Know in Library Instruction

Maggie Helen Murphy University of North Carolina at Greensboro, [email protected]

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First-Year Instruction & Humanities Librarian [email protected] Uses of A P G S J M M What is an A? “An analogy is a comparison of the similarities of two concepts. ” (G, 2008, . 114-115) “The familiar concept is called the analog and the unfamiliar one is the target.” (G, 2008, . 114-115) T T A “If the analog and target share similar features, an analogy can be drawn between them.” (G, 2008, . 114-115) T A “Analogical reasoning can occur between conceptual domains and within a conceptual domain.” (G, 2008, . 114-115) Teaching with A S I S I Step 3: Modeling Mental Tasks “Present a clear metaphor or analogy that makes clear the kind of thinking required to overcome the bottleneck.”

D D Analogies in L I W I W The library catalog is like The databases are like your the collection of music playlists on Spotify or Apple files in your iTunes music music: We subscribe to library: It’s the stuff you these platforms for access own. We own our books, to content. We don’t own so we keep information our articles; we stream about them in a different them. To find articles, we place than info about our have to search in these articles. databases.

A I U You know when you search In a database, clicking “full for a movie on Netflix and it text” limits your search tells you the movie is only results to just the stuff you available as a DVD? Like, if can read right now, in the you want to watch it, you specific database you’re need to sign up for the DVD using. It’s like excluding plan and wait for them to results that are DVD-only mail it to you? The full-text movies on Netflix if you only limiter helps you avoid that. want to see what you can stream right now. A I U Have you ever texted The citation algorithm someone and autocorrect knows what a citation is missed something you supposed to look like, but misspelled when you when it takes information expected it to work? Or it about an article from the corrects a word to a database and tries to put it completely different word? in the correct order for a Database citation tools are citation, it sometimes kind of like autocorrect. formats the info in weird, incorrect ways. A I U Pick Get Resist the current students urge to and to explain improv. relevant the Ditch bad analogs. analog. analogies!

U A T Creating A “A systematic comparison… between the features of the analog and the target is called a mapping.” (G, 2008, . 114-115) Searching in a database is kind of like Analogy using CTRL+F in a Word doc...

Target Analog Keyword CTRL+F Concept Concept Search

● A digital search ● A digital search tool tool ● Feature 1 ● Feature 1 ● For locating all ● For finding instances of a ● Feature 2 ● Feature 2 articles to use in word in a text our research ● Feature 3 ● Feature 3 document ● Locates exact ● Feature 4 ● Feature 4 ● Locates exact match of input match of input only only If you also had a Netflix subscription, you wouldn’t give up streaming Grey’s Anatomy Analogy just because you couldn’t watch it on Hulu...

Target Analog Streaming Databases Concept Concept Platforms

● Articles ● TV/movies Feature 1 Feature 1 ● You have access to ● You have access to ● ● more than one more than one ● Feature 2 ● Feature 2 database platform ● Feature 3 ● Feature 3 ● Competitors have ● Competitors have ● Feature 4 ● Feature 4 similar content but similar content but different holdings different holdings ● Search in more ● Search more than than one to find one to find a relevant research specific show Get this worksheet! go.uncg.edu/ analogyaspedagogy References