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League for Innovation 2009 Reno, NV April Cunningham Richard HannonTRANSCRIPT
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Evaluating Ethos: Using Critical Literacy to Improve Students’ Information
Decisions• April Cunningham, MLIS—Library Instruction
Coordinator, Saddleback CC
• Richard Hal Hannon, M.A. Rhetoric and Composition—English Instructor, Palomar CC
League for Innovation, Innovations 2009Reno, NV March 17, 5:00pm
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Agenda: Overview of the Session
1. We define the problem: Critical Literacy?2. Participants work in groups to contrast Academic
Ethos against other kinds of textual Ethos3. We discuss the Checklist Method and how it doesn’t
solve the problem of evaluating information4. Participants work in groups to determine how their
own disciplines deal with academic Ethos5. Groups discuss finding with the whole room.6. We make suggestions about how to teach critical
information literacy
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Defining the Problem: Goals• Problematize the issue of what constitutes
good information.• Present a framework for understanding
Critical Information Literacy.• Address the Postmodern question of
“subjectivity.”• Reclaim the Academic Ethos as an important
democratic tool.
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NewsPersonal
Blog
Wikipedia Non-ProfitAdvocacy
Academic Values
What are the Ethos and Values that these communities use to produce their texts? What are the differences?
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News Wikipedia Non-ProfitAdvocacy
Academic Values
1.Timeliness2.Accuracy/errata3.Neutrality4.The “Scoop”5.Informative—
Non-analytical
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NewsPersonal
Blog
Wikipedia Non-ProfitAdvocacy
Academic Values
What are the Ethos and Values that these communities used to produce their texts? What are the differences?
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1. Authorship2. Originality3. Transparency of
method – “hedge”4. Open-ended
question: The Dialectic.
Academic Values
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From BJ Fogg’s Slide Presentation: “What Makes a Website Credible”http://www.slideshare.net/bjfogg/web-credibility-bj-fogg-stanford-university
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From BJ Fogg’s Slide Presentation: “What Makes a Website Credible”http://www.slideshare.net/bjfogg/web-credibility-bj-fogg-stanford-university
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From New Mexico State University’s site http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html
“The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: or, Why It’s a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources”
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Criteria vs. Values
Checklist Criteria• Authority• Accuracy• Objectivity• Currency• Coverage
Academic Values• Authorship• Originality• Transparency of
method – “hedge”
• Open-ended question: The Dialectic.
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The Ethos Method• Making Tacit Knowledge Explicit for Students
from Diverse Backgrounds
• Texts are Embodied – From Humans in Communities with Values and Agendas
• Information has Effects
• No Hiding Behind the Cloak of Objectivity
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In GroupsFor your own discipline and your institution:What have you done to teach these values?How has it worked?What are your goals for your students’ concepts of
information?What are the limitations of the Ethos Method from
your perspective (discipline or institution)?What is the appropriate level at which to
introduce these concepts?
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April Cunningham – [email protected] Hannon – [email protected]