Research Guides: A Less Is More Approach to Evaluating Information: A Chat with Mike Caulfield: Home

Event Info

On March 2, 2022, librarians and faculty from Lansing Community College and Michigan State University participated in a discussion with Mike Caulfield about his essay, Information Literacy for Mortals, an essay from Project Information Literacy's Provocation series.

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Information Literacy for Mortals
"In the academic imagination, depth and attention are the highest of virtues. But in pushing students to apply high-attention strategies to all incoming information, we risk creating a new and dangerous shallowness."
Author's Reflection on Essay
Discussion Questions

Practical Applications

We hope this conversation will inspire new teaching ideas and assignments.

Designing Effective Research Assignments
Library Instruction
Media Literacy

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