by LIS101 | Oct 17, 2017 | Readings, Video Content and Multimedia |
This short presentation touches on historiography, narratives, tradition, memes, and culture and speculates about the impact of culture on information literacy. Culture and Information PDF Culture and...
by LIS101 | Aug 18, 2017 | libguides, Readings, Research Skills |
Many of us have been taught that in order to start a research paper we need a thesis statement, and while it is true that every research paper needs a thesis, coming up with the thesis statement first is not necessarily a good way to start. Simply stated, a thesis...
by LIS101 | Jul 24, 2017 | Blogs, Pedagogy, Readings, Research Skills |
by Amanda Hovious of The Designer Librarian and Todd Heldt of LIS101 As a PhD student in Information Science, I have been chewing on one problem in particular: What are the missing components of information literacy instruction? What is not currently being addressed?...
by LIS101 | Mar 15, 2017 | Readings, Research Skills |
One example of how businesses use information is seen in the “environmental scan,” which is a concept that has existed since the 1960s. The idea is that organizations should keep an eye on the “environment” in order to make informed decisions about future challenges....
by LIS101 | Mar 7, 2017 | Articles, Readings, Uncategorized |
By Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts, and Ethan Zuckerman THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SHOOK the foundations of American politics. Media reports immediately looked for external disruption to explain the unanticipated victory—with theories ranging from...
by LIS101 | Feb 25, 2017 | Pedagogy, Readings |
The 21st Annual Illinois Community College Assessment Fair was excellent, and Norbert Elliot’s keynote questioning the traditional values of assessment, such as validity and reliability, and proposing more attention to fairness in design, was extremely...
by LIS101 | Jan 26, 2017 | libguides, Readings |
Definitions and Explanations A primary source is an original object or document from a specific time or event under study. Primary sources include historical and legal documents, interviews, eyewitness accounts, results of experiments, survey data,...
by LIS101 | Jan 24, 2017 | Readings, Webpages |
AllSides claims to “expose bias and provides multiple angles on the same story,” so readers can better understand the full context of a story. The website hosts stories from across the political spectrum so that readers can make side-by-side comparisons. ...
by LIS101 | Dec 8, 2016 | Readings, Research Skills |
Fake news is in the headlines, and already a phalanx of tech-savvy students have come to our rescue by creating apps to root out verified and unverified stories. The effort is commendable, and the technology impressive. Unfortunately, the problem is harder to solve...
by LIS101 | Jul 5, 2016 | Readings, Uncategorized |
A Facebook newsfeed can be a dangerous place to get your information. Note for instance the coverage of the FBI probe regarding Hillary Clinton’s email use as Secretary of State. In a single newsfeed I captured three articles, two of which say she will be indicted...
by LIS101 | Jun 17, 2016 | Readings, Research Skills |
An information artifact is anything through which people communicate, such as a text, an image, a piece of graphic design, or a video. By asking critical questions as you engage it, you can develop a deeper understanding of an artifact’s context, aim, and meaning. To...
by LIS101 | Jun 9, 2016 | Readings, Uncategorized |
In a perfect world, facts and information would be presented objectively so that people could make rational, educated decisions. Unfortunately, information is rarely bestowed in such a pristine manner. Instead, it is often presented in the form of argumentation, in...
by LIS101 | Jun 9, 2016 | Readings, Webpages |
Dr Biljana Scott’s article on framing an argument introduces the linguistic and rhetoric aspects of persuasion. The way in which we frame an issue largely determines how that issue will be understood and acted upon. By dissecting Obama’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech...
by LIS101 | May 26, 2016 | Readings |
In the public sphere there have long raged battles between capital and labor, business and government, industrial interests and humanist concerns, and no doubt many others. Attempts to exert control over the messages in the public sphere are undertaken to...