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Watch this space – we may be able to put up a link to the actual talk at some point. This version is being presented online, to librarians and faculty members from Seattle-area community colleges. Sneak preview: Why 2.0? Michael Gorman (Britannica Blog) Jabberwiki: The Educational Response, parts one and two Shifting perspective – why [...]
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Or kind of. After writing this post last winter, I started thinking about this idea as a way to connect with some of the classes I work with. Quick recap, I was looking at craft tutorials online and came up with some common characteristics they had, that our library tutorials don’t always have: They’re kind [...]
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What is it about spring term that it always ends up being overloaded? Sometimes it is travel, and this term definitely has its share of that – informational visits to the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, WILU in Montreal, and an insane 30-hour total trip across 3 time zones for a college [...]
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So slammed, so briefly (well, for me). Via CrookedTimber, a pointed to this post by Julian Sanchez on argumentative fallacies, experts, non-experts and debates about climate change. It’s well worth reading, especially if you are interested in the question of how non-experts can evaluate and use expert information, which is a topic that I think [...]
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I’m not sure that even my tendency to see information literacy connections everywhere will explain why I’m posting this, but I just thought it was really interesting. This morning, I got pointed to this article (via a delicious network) which argues that hands-on, unstructured, discovery-based learning doesn’t do the trick for many science students at [...]
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