IamInfosmart DLSU

This concludes our learning session for today! Thank you to our students and faculty members who joined us this morning. 💚✨

For the 2️⃣nd part of our learning session, Ms. Rose Crisostomo of Turnitin, presents TurnitinAI and their promise to continue to improve the platform to ensure its reliability. A new development in the platform allows faculty members to generate a report for better student feedback. 💚✨

📎Dr. Jang shares SCOPUS AI will be officially launched next year, and it will function like chatGPT, where the sources will be generated from the Scopus database. It can also generate a mind map of the key concepts and a list of references featured.

💻✨We've officially started our Day 3️⃣!✨

Mr. Kevin Tansiongco, Readers' Services Librarian, gave a very smooth opening to what will transpire in our two-part learning session.

Mr. Kelvin Samson, Chairperson of , formally welcomed the speakers and participants, which was immediately followed by the introduction of our first resource speaker, Dr. Johan Jang of Elsevier Asia Pacific.

Dr. Jang emphasized the need to use AI in academic writing with utmost caution because of the increasing number of inauthentic sources, inaccurate data, and ethical, security, and privacy concerns, to name a few.

He further mentioned that we cannot ask AI to write our work for us; we can only use it to improve its readability. More importantly, It cannot replace the production of scientific work, pedagogic, or medical insights.

📣 A fantastic Saturday morning to everyone! 🌟

Day 3️⃣ of will be starting in a short while. Scan the QR code to join the online learning session 🤳📳

🌟Turn up your research and academic writing experience with AI ✨

Join us on our 3️⃣rd day of featuring “Turning Eye to AI: A Closer Look at AI in Writing and Publishing Your Papers” a two-part learning session designed to help faculty and graduate students maximize the use and benefits of AI in writing and publishing papers using AI-powered information systems. 💻✍️

📌Scan the QR code to register!

🍿🍿 Students and teachers pitch in their thoughts and reactions after watching the film.

Discussions revolve around ways on how we can find balance the potential benefits of advancing AI with the ethical considerations and potential risks. 💡🧠

🍿🍿Ms. Sarah Jane Fabito, our special guest facilitator, gave a quick and fun walkthrough of what to expect in today’s viewing party. 🎞️🎥

Winners of the icebreaker were able to take home special American Spaces merchandise.🌟🏆🎖️

🍿🍿🍿It’s popping! 🎥

Our viewing party has officially started with Ms. Chezka Tamayo, Readers’ Services Librarian and emcee for today’s activity.

Ms. Marian Eclevia, Director of Libraries, welcomed students and faculty members from San Rafael Technological Vocational School, Life Project 4 Youth, DepED Manila, and Kaunlaran High School.

Ms. Roana Flores, Associate American Corner Librarian, introduced the eLibrary USA to the audience and shared how they can have access to the plethora of knowledge from the featured databases.

It’s Day 2️⃣of ! 🌟

Our popcorns are ready for today’s viewing party with American Corner Manila - De La Salle University Libraries but just before we dive into another amazing AI-filled experience, here’s a recap of our Opening Program held yesterday 📸🎞️🤳

Panelists share very interesting insights about what should be the ultimate goal of integrating AI into society.

AI-mazing Thursday!🌟

Today marks the opening of our 10th year of IaminfoSMART.

Mr. Kevin Tansiongco, Readers’ Services Librarian, started the program with the introduction of this year’s campaign theme.

Ms. Marian Eclevia, Director of Libraries, formally welcomed the resource speakers, partner schools, and other guests.

📣Excitement level: 💯!

🥇It's going to be another AI-mazing day at the Libraries with "The A.I. Race: An eLibraryUSA Viewing Party" 📺📽👀

📌This activity will feature a documentary exploring the impact of AI on various professions, revealing the extent of robots’ capabilities to perform tasks. Regardless of the profession, the documentary brings affected workers together with A.I. experts. Discussions and reflections will follow right after the film viewing. 👩‍🏫

📌Participation in this event is by invitation only.

📢3️⃣ more days to go‼️🌟

⏰It's time to introduce the incredible panelists who will be joining us for our opening program. Get ready to be inspired by their expertise and diverse perspectives!👩‍💼👩‍🏫🧑‍💻

🎯Drop a 💚, save the date, mark your calendars, and get ready for an enriching experience!🏆🥇

📣 Unravel to understand. 🧠🫀Unravel to set new paths. 🛣️

In its 1️⃣1️⃣th year, IaminfoSMART presents “Unraveling AI: Nurturing Critical Information Literacy Skills for Lifelong Learning” 🧑🏻‍🏫👩🏻‍🏫

🎯 Focusing on the intersection of media and information literacy and AI, this year's campaign aims to emphasize the need for individuals to develop critical thinking, research skills, and ethical decision-making abilities to interact with AI-powered information systems effectively. 💪✨

📣 Join us for a week-long fair of exhibitions, learning sessions, and interactive games on 16-20 November 2023.

📌 Turn on your notifications for the specific details of each event!

The Philippines ranks in the bottom 10% of listed countries based on the Global Innovation Index 2021.

This is, according to Dr. Raymond Tan of De La Salle University, a wake-up call for colleges and universities in the Philippines to turn the statistics into something more respectable in the future– that is to generate more research output which is part and parcel of being a knowledge economy.

Understand more about how research can impact the many facets of our daily lives and learn how DLSU contributes to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

Take part in the discussion via Zoom. Register while there is still time: bit.ly/IAIS2022

Dr. Alton Grizzle of UNESCO joins us from Paris, France. He started by challenging each one of us to reason together on how our being media and information literate connects to lifelong learning and in working towards sustainability. He points out that–

“𝐁𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬. 𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐥, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧? 𝐁𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭.”

Join the ongoing discussion by registering for free at bit.ly/IAIS2022!

It’s Friday and we are on our 3rd Day of 2022! To start, we are joined by Dr. Teeza Legaspi.

We began our discussion on how our beliefs define our actions and our habits. She mentioned how it is important to self-check our beliefs:

“Sometimes we latch on our beliefs even if we have little evidence supporting our beliefs”.

Join the ongoing discussion by registering for free at bit.ly/IAIS2022!

A recent survey from Pulse Asia (2022), revealed that 90% of the country’s adult population have come across untrue and fake news about government and politics. How can we deliberately evaluate the information we are seeing everyday from social media?

Let’s find out and listen to Prof. Yvonne Chua as she guides us in looking into the following topics:

✅ Exposure of Filipinos to disinformation

✅ Fact-checking in journalism and beyond

✅ Strategies to widen reach of fact checks

✅ What universities and educational institutions can do










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Prof. Nick De Ocampo believes in promoting a materialist approach toward the understanding of cinema 🎥🎞️:

“I affirm and advance a definition of cinema that is commonly obvious but many people still refuse to be cognizant of—that cinema is materially composed of signs. Instead of realizing this, many ignore or remain ignorant of this and continue to believe that cinema is all about story, which makes cinema to be experienced in literary rather than cinematic ways.”








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Dr. Jose Victor Torres, History Professor at De La Salle University on 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦 –

“Historical revisionism is by itself good because you change or correct historical facts following meticulous scholarly research. It breaks the traditional story of history and provides new facts.”

How do we fight historical distortion?

(1) We simply have to show the truth.

(2) Learn our history. As long as we are ignorant of our history, others will write it for us.

(3) View history in its context and not just a list of facts.

(4) Understand that history is not about emotions. History is about the Plain Truth– a Truth with all its blemishes.









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Ms. Barbara Lison President of IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions graces the event with a keynote speech on how IFLA supports the global library fields in advocating sustainability.

"The challenges facing the library field from ever-increasing globalization can only be met and overcome by an inclusive, global response from a united library field."

Photo from IFLA https://www.ifla.org/vision-mission/












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Starting Wednesday on a meaningful note. ✨

: Ms. Christine Abrigo, Director of Libraries, welcomes participants nationwide to the opening ceremonies of IamInfoSMART 2022.











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“Partners in Research: Towards Achieving University Strategic Goals”
Dr. RAYMOND GIRARD R. TAN

Dr. Tan is the current Vice-President for Research and Innovation, a Distinguished Full Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering, and University Fellow of De La Salle University, as well as an Academician of the Philippine National Academy of Science and Technology. In the Scopus database, he has over 500 publications and 11,000 citations, with an h-index of 53. He works in the research area of systems engineering with applications to carbon management and process integration, and is the co-developer of the carbon emissions pinch analysis (CEPA) algorithm. He has received multiple scientific awards from organizations in the Philippines, is ranked among the top 2% of the world’s scientists based on composite citation indicators, and is in the Reuters Hot List of the world’s top 1,000 climate researchers.

Main SDGs tackled:
#4 Quality Education
4.5 - Eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations
4.7 - Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships

Date: November 18, 2022
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 NN

Register now at https://bit.ly/IAIS2022

Day 3 event is FREE and OPEN TO ALL!

Kudos to all the winners of the IamInfoSMART Daily Games. You all nailed it! 🙂

For those who did not win, don't worry because we still have two more digital games for you to try out! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

1️⃣ Digital Content Creation Contest (Nov 15 to Dec 16, 2020)

Prize
1st Place – 3,000.00 PhP (in form of a digital gift certificate)
2nd Place – 2,000.00 PhP

SIGN UP HERE: http://bit.do/DQDCCC

2️⃣ Elsevier Online Quiz (Nov 24 to Dec 16, 2020)
Prize: Elsevier goodies

CHECK IT HERE: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLSU20

⏰ DIGITAL EMPATHY BINGO DAY 5: 28 NOVEMBER 2020
Prize: 300.00 PhP (in form of a digital gift certificate)
HINT: We are looking for 13 marked tiles only!
Comment down your accomplished bingo card! 🙂

On behalf of the entire Team & Committee, THANK YOU for the successful run of this year's campaign.

We hope to see you again next year.

Animo La Salle 💚