"Students deal with complex online environments every day, and many are being asked to grapple with-and produce-new types of information and to utilize and navigate unfamiliar information environments. Critical thinking skills can empower students to become savvy consumers, producers, and distributors of information and can equip them to navigate and participate in complex twenty-first-century information ecosystems. The Critical Thinking about Sources Cookbook provides lesson plans, resources, ideas, and inspiration to empower librarians in helping students develop the crucial critical thinking and information and media literacy skills they need. 96 recipes divided into two parts-Consuming Information and Producing and Distributing Information-explore evaluating information, recognizing scholarly sources, how technology mediates our experiences with information, the economics of information ecosystems, and more, including provocative considerations of issues like copyright and open access and deep divesinto pop culture and social media. Critically examining many of the challenges inherent in our media ecosystems, The Critical Thinking about Sources Cookbook takes a broad look at the types of sources our students are expected to use and produce, and provides librarians and educators with a series of adaptable and innovative approaches to teaching critical-thinking skills"--
Sarah E. Morris is head of instruction in Emory University Libraries. She also serves as a subject librarian for English. Before her arrival at Emory, Sarah spent two years as the learning and assessment librarian at the University of Texas in Austin. She also spent three years as the first-year experience librarian at Loyola University-Chicago, and four years in museum education for various children's and art museums. Born in Jacksonville, NC, Sarah grew up in Abilene, TX. She earned her bachelor's degree in history at Southwestern University, a master's degree of humanities, with a concentration in English literature, from the University of Chicago, and a master's of science in information science from UT-Austin. Sarah is also the co-founder of an educational nonprofit called the Nucleus Learning Network.
