Comments on: In Praise of the Internet: Shifting Focus and Engaging Critical Thinking Skills

By: “I came to the library to get some information, not to have a conversation with the librarian” or, “The user experience in the library” | A Searching Librarian

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:51:42 +0000

[...] In praise of the internet : shifting focus and engaging critical thinking thinking skills / Ellie Collier, InThe LibraryWithTheLeadPipe.org, 07.01.2009, viewed 31.08.2011, http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2009/in-praise-of-the-internet-shifting-focus-and-engagin…. [...]

By: ellie

ellie — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:38:55 +0000

Thanks Christie!

By: Christie Ward

Christie Ward — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:02:17 +0000

I’m glad that the info I pointed you towards helped! And I love this essay. I try to give my sources so hopefully people WILL use good, critical thinking to evaluate what I write.

A doctorate doesn’t necessarily make a person a good source – educated people can have some very “tin foil hat” ideas and viewpoints (as can we all). I hope that consumers of knowledge will use good consumer habits with information – check the sources, evaluate the reliability, and so forth. And that really should apply not just to the web, but also to sources in print, from lectures, and the like.

By: Ellie

Ellie — Sun, 23 May 2010 19:19:20 +0000

Thanks Sara!

By: Sara Miller

Sara Miller — Wed, 19 May 2010 20:27:27 +0000

Thanks for the cite! my article is no longer up at my Web site but here is the full citation:

Miller, S. D. (2009). Learning Outcomes, Instructional Design, and the 50-Minute Information Literacy Session. The Michigan Academician, 39(1), 31-45.

By: It’s the Collections that are Special | In the Library with the Lead Pipe

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:37:12 +0000

[...] Quoted from Ellie Collier’s “In Praise of the Internet: Shifting Focus and Engaging Critical Thinking Skills” In the Library with the Lead Pipe, January 7, [...]

By: At Random « Applied Design Librarian

At Random « Applied Design Librarian — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:39:53 +0000

[...] I read a fantastic blog posting “In Praise of the Internet: Shifting Focus and Engaging Critical Thinking Skills” by Ellie Collier (In the Library with the Lead Pipe), which talks seriously and critically about [...]

By: Red

Red — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:22:53 +0000

I think the most common weakness of web pages is they are superficial more than wrong. Also, the point about the NRA site being useful for some info on guns but not others is important. That’s something to focus instruction on, I’d say, more than the truly goofy sites (although they can make an impression on students).

By: anne-marie

anne-marie — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:29:13 +0000

thanks ellie – I think I was reading your post while you were reading mine!

There are many things I love in your essay, but I think the distinction between use and cite is a really, really important one. I think it is more authentic in terms of how it describes how we really do research and learn from research — and I also think it’s always a good idea to reinforce that idea of research as something bigger than a process of finding quotes to support an argument.

Our beginning composition require students to use both “background” and “speaker” sources to get at this idea, and that concept of “speaker” sources really helps get us all thinking about how the sources you might want to cite in an academic argument paper can come from all kinds of places.

thanks!

By: ellie

ellie — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:52:06 +0000

I just wanted to share this fantastic related post I just read.

http://info-fetishist.org/2009/01/03/discovery-and-creation-and-lies