Teaching Strategies

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

• Standards for the 21st Century Learner
• Comes from School Librarians, but very useful

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