Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)
Target Audience
Higher Education
Location
Room 1005
Proposal
See presentation description.
Short Description
Central to developing fluid competency in information literacy is engaging with it in a situated context. Rather than presenting searching, evaluating, and using skills in an abstract linear format, we present students with a provocative case study involving Dr. Leo and the editors of JAMA which compels them to simultaneously engage a number of information literacy competencies and skills from a variety of approaches and angles. Dr. Leo will begin the presentation with an overview of the JAMA study, his critique, the rejoinder by the JAMA editors, and some of the commentary the quarrel generated on blogs and news sites. Information literacy librarian Philip Smith will then discuss how this controversy can be used to promote active learning of many key information literacy concepts.
Keywords
Teaching information literacy
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Leo, Jonathan and Smith, Philip, "Preventing Depression: Using Conflict-of-Interest in Evidence-Based Medicine to Teach Information Literacy" (2010). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 17.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2010/2010/17
Preventing Depression: Using Conflict-of-Interest in Evidence-Based Medicine to Teach Information Literacy
Room 1005
See presentation description.
