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Information Literacy: Authority Is Constructed and Contextual

Authority Is Constructed and Contextual

Learning Activities

Some Learning Objectives

  • Students will recognize appropriate information resources per discipline.
  • Determine attributes of authoritative information for different needs, with the understanding that context plays a role in authority-based attributes
  • Recognize that traditional notions of granting authority might hinder diverse ideas and world views
  • Acknowledge that oneself may be seen as an authority in a particular area, and recognize the responsibilities entailed
  • Students will be able to recognize relevance of subject expertise as a kind of authority in order to gather appropriate articles for assignment
  • Students will be able to distinguish between scholarly and popular sources in order to select appropriate sources for academic research.
  • Students will be able to thoughtfully find published primary sources in order to include first-person perspectives in their research project.
  • Students will evaluate sources using a variety of criteria in order to cultivate a skeptical stance and a self-awareness of their own biases and world views.
  • Students will learn to distinguish a news from an editorial article so they will understand that information is created for a purpose.
  • Students will be able to distinguish between different types of sources in order to find credible sources on their topics.
  • Students will be able to express a desire to find better resources IOT improve the quality of their resources.
  • Students will be able to explain why the authority of a source matters, IOT choose appropriate sources
  • Students will be able to evaluate databases results IOT select relevant and credible sources
  • Students will be able to evaluate an author's use of sources
  • Students will be able to evaluate a source using specific criteria in order to determine whether it meets their information need.

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