Recording now available! Explore intellectual virtues as habits of mind for engaging the contemporary information landscape with HxLibraries Fall Symposium speaker Jason Baehr, PhD on October 5, 2023.
Aug 15, 2023Liked by Sarah Hartman-Caverly, Bridget Wipf, Amy Girard
We encourage all our subscribers to attend this event--it promises to offer a much-needed perspective on how we think about the information landscape and especially how we might teach and guide others. in using it, and how we might use a virtues approach in our own professional development.
Aug 16, 2023·edited Aug 16, 2023Liked by HxL Substack
It seems like one of the major roles that libraries can fill these days is helping people to understand how to navigate information critically - and I mean that in the most neutral possible way. There is such a volume of competing, contradictory information being pumped out and increasingly the means for people to do so artificially and fraudulently has never before been more easy nor carry less penalty. For awhile the "fact-checking" sites served a purpose - at least, their titular purpose; now they serve utterly different purposes. Where a library system could be invaluable is in showing patrons how to go about searching through all this and come up with reasonably reliable answers - regardless of the point of view of the patron. Critical thinking is a skill and there are methods to it. It isn't something that is taught in school, at least not explicitly.
We encourage all our subscribers to attend this event--it promises to offer a much-needed perspective on how we think about the information landscape and especially how we might teach and guide others. in using it, and how we might use a virtues approach in our own professional development.
It seems like one of the major roles that libraries can fill these days is helping people to understand how to navigate information critically - and I mean that in the most neutral possible way. There is such a volume of competing, contradictory information being pumped out and increasingly the means for people to do so artificially and fraudulently has never before been more easy nor carry less penalty. For awhile the "fact-checking" sites served a purpose - at least, their titular purpose; now they serve utterly different purposes. Where a library system could be invaluable is in showing patrons how to go about searching through all this and come up with reasonably reliable answers - regardless of the point of view of the patron. Critical thinking is a skill and there are methods to it. It isn't something that is taught in school, at least not explicitly.
Looking forward to this learning opportunity!