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Erik on his Dissertation Research

  • Big six s literacy standards
  • Shapiro Hughs’ Information Literacy as a Liberal Art
  • The model you adopt shows how to approach information literacy skills
  • Cognitive process matrix diagram (very useful! See Erik for it!)
  • Start with procedural and move to critical thinking (al la Bloom’s Taxonomy)
  • Bloom’s helps you see where to fit critical thinking in
  • Structured data: Google Labels and how Google works

Ellen M. on Standards from ALA

Bobbie on Evaluating Web Resources

  • Evaluating web resources exercise on our website (or Google “critical thinking for web”: there are many university sites)
  • In 50 minute class
  • Evaluation exercise with checklist
  • Do this individually and then share in group
  • Book: Cultivating Judgment by John Nelson includes activities compiled by subject area
  • Give students a question and have them use three search engines. Compare across the three.
  • There are also books in reference with activities