I pretty much lost my respect for the author about the same time Shonda
did; the "assertion" that "Information literacy assumes that she accepts
unquestioningly the information she finds on the Internet, when we know
from research that she is a skeptic who filters her results to the best
of her ability."
Has the guy ever watched college students at work?????
I can only assume based on what he said, that *his* standards are so
horribly low that he sincerely believes that if you can cut and paste
something that looks like it meets an assignment, then hey! that's all
we need to graduate, right?
I guess his assignment was to write an article, so that he could Get
Published. It didn't have to actually make sense; these same horrible
librarians who insist on teaching the foibles of individual databases
are at fault because they haven't made them simpler; the fact that they
don't make them has nothing to do with the assignment of writing An
Article About Information Literacy.
Makes rather a strong case for improving information literacy and
critical thinking.
Susan Jones
Academic Development Specialist
Academic Development Center
Parkland College
Champaign, IL 61821
sujones@parkland.edu
Webmastress,
http://www.resourceroom.net
>>> Mark Williams <markwilliams@MAKAW.NET> 01/07/05 12:44PM >>>
At 10:04 AM 1/7/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>Very interesting article in this week's Chronicle of Higher Education
>/ Chronicle Review:
>
>http://tinyurl.com/5hvxs
>Information Literacy Makes All the Wrong Assumptions
Mark Williams
Consulting Librarian
Professional Services for Conferences, Districts, Workshops
markwilliams@makaw.net
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