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Navigating The Information Ecosystem: Getting Personal With Source Evaluation, If I Apply, Kathleen Phillips, Eryn D. Roles, Sabrina Thomas
Navigating The Information Ecosystem: Getting Personal With Source Evaluation, If I Apply, Kathleen Phillips, Eryn D. Roles, Sabrina Thomas
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Librarians have long pioneered source evaluation as the first step to healthy civic learning. Traditionally, systematic source evaluation focuses on content, but twenty-first century source evaluation must begin reflectively, and begins when the researcher takes personal inventory on their emotions attached to the investigative topic. The IF I APPLY tool is a new method to foster intellectual integrity during inquiry thinking, and a fresh way to introduce students to source evaluation encouraging lifelong learning.