The Critical Thinking About Sources Cookbook

✍ Scribed by Sarah E. Morris

• Publisher: ALA Editions
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 226
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Students deal with complex online environments every day, and many are being asked to grapple with—and produce—new types of information and to utilize and navigate unfamiliar information environments. Critical thinking skills can empower students to become savvy consumers, producers, and distributors of information and can equip them to navigate and participate in complex twenty-first-century information ecosystems.

The Critical Thinking about Sources Cookbook provides lesson plans, resources, ideas, and inspiration to empower librarians in helping students develop the crucial critical thinking and information and media literacy skills they need. 96 recipes divided into two parts—Consuming Information and Producing and Distributing Information—explore evaluating information, recognizing scholarly sources, how technology mediates our experiences with information, the economics of information ecosystems, and more, including provocative considerations of issues like copyright and open access and deep dives into pop culture and social media.

Critically examining many of the challenges inherent in our media ecosystems, The Critical Thinking about Sources Cookbook takes a broad look at the types of sources our students are expected to use and produce, and provides librarians and educators with a series of adaptable and innovative approaches to teaching critical-thinking skills.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Introduction
1.1.1. Indentifying the Components of a Research Article
1.1.2. Content Form and Function
1.1.3. Deconstructed Journal Articles
1.1.4. Like Oil and Vinegar
1.1.5. Evaluating Sources on the Scholarly Spectrum
1.1.6. Popular Magazines vs. Scholarly Journals
1.1.7. Popular and Scholarly Source Stew
1.1.8. Yams and Sweet Potatoes, Jams and Jellies
1.1.9. Who Did it Better
1.1.10. Show Me the Ingredients
1.1.11. Assorted Rolls in the Breadbasket
1.1.12. Research Telephone
1.2.1. Add Data, Mix Well
1.2.2. Tapas for Success
1.2.3. Rate that Source
1.2.4. Identifying and Diluting the Dominant Flavor of a Source
1.2.5. A Human Library with a Side of Critical Thinking
1.2.6. Cooking from your Pantry
1.2.7. Boiling Water
1.2.8. Historic Misinformation Reflection and Remix
1.2.9. Primary Secondary Mixed Grill
1.2.10. Developing Critical Thinking
1.2.11. Taste Test
1.2.12. It Looks Yummy, but is it Good for you?
1.2.13. Y Tho
1.2.14. Teaching Evaluative Criteria
1.2.15. Where the Recipe Goes Wrong
1.3.1. From CRAAP to KOALAty
1.3.2. Quit Serving CRAAP
1.3.3. Rotten Resource Burger
1.3.4. It's a TRAP
1.3.5. The Best Cheeseburger Ever
1.3.6. Scholarly Journal Evaluation Activity
1.3.7. Reliable Article or Bogus Science
1.3.8. Investigate your Ingredients
1.3.9. Wait Twitter isn't Bad
1.3.10. Something Smells Fishy
1.3.11. Consuming Information Like a Scientist
1.3.12. Ranking Relevant Articles
1.3.13. Inviting Students into the Kitchen
1.3.14. The Credibility Continuum
1.3.15. What's in the Sauce
1.3.16. If I APPLY
1.3.17. Evaluating Mystery Ingredients
1.3.18. Meant to Appeal to Different Tastes or...
1.3.19. Alien Babies and Angelina Jolie
1.3.20. Scroll-Worthy Sources
1.3.21. A Dash of Investigation
1.3.22. Fact-Check Lightning Round
1.4.1. Reverse Engineering the News
1.4.2. Trust this Recipe
1.4.3. The Proof of the Pudding
1.4.4. Sweet and Savory
1.4.5. Tin Foil Hats
1.4.6. A Heaping Scoop of Literacy
1.4.7. The Whole Facts Diet
1.4.8. How Do They Know That?
1.4.9. Cooking up Critical thinking in the Flipped Kitchen
1.4.10. How Sweet it is
1.4.11. Discovering the I in Bias
1.4.12. Food for Thought
1.4.13. Popping the Filter Bubble on Internet News
1.4.14. Cooking with GMOs
1.4.15. Got Misinformation
1.4.16. Fighting Infobesity
1.4.17. Mindfulness and Information Consumption
2.1.1. Why Can't Intellectual Freedom and Copyright Get Along
2.1.2. Open Source and Royalty Free
2.1.3. Communicating Research Three Ways
2.1.4. 7-Layer Citation Salad
2.1.5. A Pinch of Peer Review
2.1.6. Mind Shapers
2.1.7. Replicating Research
2.1.8. Evaluating and Selecting Library Resources
2.1.9. Creating and Using Infographics
2.2.1. Cookies or Cake
2.2.2. Excavating the Conversation
2.2.3. Mixing up an Authority Matters Batter
2.2.4. Plan your Shopping
2.2.5. Audience a la Carte
2.2.6. Restaurant Confidential
2.2.7. Sous Vide or Deep Fry
2.2.8. Using Popular Media to Craft Research Questions
2.2.9. Crafting Credible Cocktails
2.2.1.0. Stop the Presses
2.3.1. Writing Buffet
2.3.2. Poached Barrier Reef
2.3.3. Using Wikipedia to Critically Evaluate Information
2.3.4. Asking Question Quesadillas
2.3.5. Mixing Up a Balanced Research Plan
2.3.6. Hot Twitter Tips
2.3.7. Repost This Not That
2.3.8. How Social Media Shapes News
2.3.9. Make Your Own Mix
2.3.10. Scholarly Journal Evaluation Activity
2.3.11. Media Manipulation