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This guide provides resources related to the February 2024 CETL teaching talk, "Becoming More Critical Consumers & Creators," by Amanda Nichols Hess

CETL Teaching Talk Information

It’s increasingly essential that students develop critical skills in how they find, evaluate, and use information – both in their academic work and in their everyday life. What’s more, national surveys of employers have established that such abilities play an important role in the workplace but that recent college graduates are underprepared. In this session, we started a conversation about the kinds of meaningful, authentic learning experiences we can foster so that learners can become more critical consumers and creators of information.

Led by Amanda Nichols Hess, Professor, OU Libraries.

Teaching Talk Materials

Teaching Talk Resources

References:

  • Association of College & Research Libraries. (2016). Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. https://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/issues/infolit/framework1.pdf
  • Foundation for Critical Thinking. (2019). Our Concept and Definition of Critical Thinking. https://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/our-conception-of-critical-thinking/411
  • Caulfield, M. (2019, June 19). SIFT (the Four Moves). https://hapgood.us/2019/06/19/sift-the-four-moves/
  • Oakland University. (n.d.) General Education. https://oakland.edu/gened/ 

Resources:

  • Association of College and Research Libraries Instruction Section. (2023). Information Literacy in the Disciplines. https://acrl.libguides.com/c.php?g=1190641&p=8708392
  • Caulfield, M. (2017). Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers. https://pressbooks.pub/webliteracy/
  • Civic Online Reasoning. (2024). Curriculum. https://cor.inquirygroup.org/curriculum/
  • Faix, A., & Fyn, A. (2023). Six frames, four moves, one habit: Finding ACRL’s Framework within SIFT. College & Research Libraries News, 84(11), 411-416. https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/26143/34084.
  • Motz, B. A., Fyfe, E. R., & Guba, T. P. (2022). Learning to call bullsh* t via induction: Categorization training improves critical thinking performance. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 12(3), 310-324. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000053
  • News Literacy Project. (2024). NewsLitNATION. https://newslit.org/newslit-nation/#tools
  • Wineburg, S. (2023, December). Critical thinking: Necessary but insufficient in a digital age. National Association of Secondary School Principals. https://www.nassp.org/publication/principal-leadership/volume-24-2023-2024/principal-leadership-december-2023/critical-thinking/