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1000L
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English
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"When asked simple questions about global trends--what percentage of the world's population live in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish school -- we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. Professor and TED presenter Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators,...
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Publisher
Government Institutes
Language
English
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"Today, only a few people outside of the scientific community are conversant with the tradition of science and its many breakthroughs. The rest are scientifically illiterate. So say Frank R. Spellman and Joni Price-Bayer, authors of In Defense of Science: Why Scientific Literacy Matters. This book explains why ordinary citizens need to have an understanding of science, its methods, and its groundbreaking discoveries. The authors introduce the most...
Series
Advances in librarianship volume Volume 46
Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Series
Reference Services Review Reference and instructional services for libraries in the digital age volume Volume 44, Number 2
Publisher
Emerald
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Michael Arthur Caulfield
Pub. Date
[2017]-
Language
English
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Description
"The web gives us many such strategies and tactics and tools, which, properly used, can get students closer to the truth of a statement or image within seconds. For some reason we have decided not to teach students these specific techniques. As many people have noted, the web is both the largest propaganda machine ever created and the most amazing fact-checking tool ever invented. But if we haven't taught our students those capabilities is it any...
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Series
Publisher
ALA Editions
Language
English
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"Talk of so-called fake news, what it is and what it isn't, is front and center across the media landscape, with new calls for the public to acquire appropriate research and evaluation skills and become more information savvy. But none of this is new for librarians and information professionals, particularly for those who teach information literacy. Cooke, a Library Journal Mover & Shaker, believes that the current situation represents a golden opportunity...
Series
Aslib Journal of Information Management volume Volume 69, Number 3
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Series
Library review volume 54, no. 4
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Published by Open SUNY Textbooks, Milne Library, State University of New York at Geneseo
Pub. Date
[2014]-
Language
English
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"Good researchers have a host of tools at their disposal that make navigating today's complex information ecosystem much more manageable. Gaining the knowledge, abilities, and self-reflection necessary to be a good researcher helps not only in academic settings, but is invaluable in any career, and throughout one’s life. The Information Literacy User's Guide will start you on this route to success. The Information Literacy User's Guide is based...
Publisher
The WAC Clearinghouse
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This collection brings together scholarship and pedagogy from multiple perspectives and disciplines, offering nuanced and complex perspectives on Information Literacy in the second decade of the 21st century. Taking as a starting point the concerns that prompted the Association of Research Libraries (ACRL) to review the Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education and develop the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (2015),...
18) Assessing student learning outcomes for information literacy instruction in academic institutions
Publisher
Association of College and Research Libraries
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
ALA Neal-Schuman, an imprint of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The six threshold concepts outlined in the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education are not simply a revision of ACRL's previous Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. They are instead an altogether new way of looking at information literacy. In this book, instructional librarian Burkhardt decodes the Framework, putting its conceptual approach into straightforward language while offering more than 50 classroom-ready...
