Comments on: Critical Literacy? Information!

By: The Canon and The Archive | all these birds with teeth: this is not about science.

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:50:14 +0000

[...] challenge the great pyramid of bloom’s taxonomy. If we are going to take informed learning or critical literacy seriously, then the dated, hierarchical divide between acts of understanding and creation of [...]

By: Christy Earp

Christy Earp — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:26:17 +0000

Wilkes Community College adopted a plan to increase student disposition to use critical thinking in all aspects of their lives. The Foundation for Critical Thinking is the major model, and the CCTDI (California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory) was used to identify areas of weakness among faculty, staff, and students. A more detailed explanation of the plan can be read at http://www.wilkescc.edu/WCCCMS/WCCInsider1.aspx?id=774, but in a nutshell, WCC’s focus is to help students learn to:

-Seek quality information

-Discover their assumptions about learning, topics, subjects, and people

-Ask questions

-Analyze different points of view

The library plays an essential role in the pursuit of these abilities, including participation as instructors in required freshman seminar courses. Faculty and staff also receive training in information literacy, through faculty/staff workshops and presentations, and through publications like the newsletter at the link below.

http://www.wilkescc.edu/WCCCMS/images/Website_-_2008-2009/Instructional_Services/PDF_Documents/QEP%20Open%20Line%20February%202009.pdf

By: Heather Davis

Heather Davis — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:09:45 +0000

I’ve seen these videos. Thank you for sharing this!

By: Donna

Donna — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:35:45 +0000

Sorry. Spelling was not what I intended.

By: Donna

Donna — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:35:16 +0000

You may want to look at a new grouo of IL videos and see what assumptions are driving the cretion of it.

MURALS http://www.milesmultimedia.com/

Donna