Transcript Philosophy and IF Wint Conf `06 Fac

Information Fluency, Critical Thinking, and
Ethics in the Department of Philosophy
Nancy A. Stanlick, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy
and
Robert Slade
Burnett Honors College Student
FCTL Winter Faculty Development
Conference
December 12, 2006
UCF Department of Philosophy
Information Fluency Participation:
IF, Critical Thinking and Ethics
Pilot Project with Three
Elements:
Research, Teaching, Service
University
Research
IF Faculty Fellow
For IF,
Critical Thinking,
& Ethics
Academic Integrity
Applications, VR
Department
Teaching
IF & Subject- Specific
Pre & Post Tests
GEP Assessment
Direct & Indirect
Assessments
University
Service
International
Conferences
on IF & Ethics
2007-2009
UCF/IF/Philosophy Conference
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Heresy, Blasphemy, and Freedom of
Expression
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January 18-20, 2007 (Student Union)
See http://www.if.ucf.edu
Conference Program
 Registration Information
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Free for UCF participants and attendees
Bibliography -- IF and Ethics
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Articles in Philosophy on IF and Ethics/Critical Thinking
1. Kapitzke, Cushla Information Literacy: A Positivist Epistemology and a Politics of
Outformation, Educational Theory, vol. 52 no. 1, pp. 37-53, Winter 2003
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2. Kellner, Douglas New Technologies/New Literacies: Reconstructing Education for the
New Millennium Source: Philosophy of Education, pp. 21-36, 2000; ISSN1575-6866
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Web Sites
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1. Interdisciplinary Study of Information Technology (ISIT)
http://www.drake.edu/cdtl/ISIT/info.html
2. Tuana, Nancy Moral Literacy
http://www.rps.psu.edu/0305/literacy.html
3. Critical Thinking & Information Literacy Across the Curriculum
http://www.bcc.ctc.edu/lmc/ilac/Overview/default.htm
PHI 2010H SLOs & Assessments
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SLOs
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To learn to use and evaluate information
sources in philosophy specifically, on the
Internet, in the UCF Library
To use this information in appropriate ways.
Assessments
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Pre- and Post-Tests on Information Fluency
Web-Site Evaluation Document (Student
Generated)
Pre/Post-Test
Contents
For PHI 2010H
(Honors
Introduction to
Philosophy)
Subject-Specific
Internet Resources
Information
Literacy
Pre/Post-Test Results
Pre-Test
Average: 10.29
Median: 12
Post-Test
Average: 19.38
Median: 20
Pre-Test Scores
Post-Test Scores
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Student Internet Evaluation
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Robert Slade
Chair of Web Site Evaluation Document
Committee in PHI 2010H, Honors Introduction to
Philosophy, Fall 2006
See
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~stanlick/IFRobertSlad
e.ppt for his PowerPoint Presentation, and
See
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~stanlick/Philosophyan
dIFFCTLWintConference2006Doc2Students.ppt for
Contents of the Student’s Document