Critical Thinking Information Fluency

Critical Thinking

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Henderson, John. CYouSee: T is for Thinking: A Guide to Critical Thinking About What You See on the Web [Website]. New York: 17 September 2002 [cited 12 January 2003]. Available from World Wide Web: <http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html>.

November, Alan. Teaching Zack To Think. High School Principal Magazine [website]. Wellesley (MA):September 1998- [cited 10 October 2003]. Available from Internet: < http://www.anovember.com/articles/zack.html >.

Alan November forcefully makes the case for teaching information evaluation techniques as part of teaching critical thinking to high school students. A classic example of the importance of using more than a single evaluation tactic.

Thinking Critically about Discipline-Based World Wide Web Resources in UCLA Library Help Guides, [Article]. :Regents of the University of California: 10 October 1997 [cited 24 January 2003]. Available from World Wide Web: <http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/discipline.htm>.

This site presents the UCLA College Library guide to thinking critically about web resources. Six basic points are considered: content, evaluation, source, date, structure, and other.