Graduates will identify, evaluate, and responsibly use information needed for decision making.
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College Success: Chapter 7 - Thinking
Description:
In this chapter, you’ll be introduced to different ways of thinking about the way you think.
Link to Resource:
https://openstax.org/books/college-success/pages/7-introduction
Copyright:
CC BY
Type:
Textbook
Learning Framework: Effective Strategies for Student Success - Chapter 7
Description:
In this chapter, students will:
Define critical thinking
Describe the role that logic plays in critical thinking
Describe how critical thinking skills can be used to evaluate information
Perform fact-checking in the form of lateral reading to evaluate sources of information
Identify strategies for developing yourself as a critical thinker
Explore key elements and stages in the creative process
Apply specific skills for stimulating creative perspectives and innovative options
Integrate critical and creative thinking in the process of problem-solving
Link to Resource:
https://oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/25864/overview
Copyright:
CC BY-NC-SA
Type:
Course Collection
Critical Media Literacy and Civic Learning
Description:
This OER ebook provides over 50 interactive multimodal explorations about media literacy and civic engagement through learning about key topics in United States Government and civic life. The core target is middle schools.
Link to Resource:
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=773409163
Copyright:
CC BY-NC-SA
Type:
Activities Collection
Information Use in Communities
Description:
This course provides an opportunity for students to examine information seeking and use in geographic communities. The course takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore: 1) selected community information needs & use situations (everyday life problem solving, community problem solving, citizenship, civic engagement and participation); 2) factors that influence community information use including the roles of community information organizations & institutions; 3) models of community information provision. The course starts with a brief historical introduction. Students will have opportunities to examine in more detail topics of especial interest to them.
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Copyright:
CC BY-NC
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Course Collection
"The Commons: Tools for Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric",Scientific Inquiry in Social Work (DeCarlo)
Description:
This text gives instructors and students of college writing courses a single source for information on metacognitive critical reading, rhetorical awareness, and MLA formatting basics as well as interesting and relevant reading and viewing content.
Link to Resource:
https://encompass.eku.edu/ekuopen/4/
Copyright:
CC BY-NC-SA
Type:
Activities Collection
Scientific Inquiry in Social Work (DeCarlo)
Description:
Students will learn how to discover a researchable topic that is interesting to them, examine scholarly literature, formulate a proper research question, design a quantitative or qualitative study to answer their question, carry out the design, interpret quantitative or qualitative results, and disseminate their findings to a variety of audiences.
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Copyright:
CC BY-NC-SA
Type:
Textbook