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Readings and Activities
Beck, J. (2017). this article won’t change your mind. The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/this-article-wont-change-your-mind/519093/.
This reading asks students to think about the social life of information.
Jenks, A. (2016). First day activity: Ten things you believe to be true. Society for Cultural Anthropology. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/first-day-activity-ten-things-you-believe-to-be-true.
This first-day activity asks students to consider what is true and what they believe.
Keys, G. (2000). Doing ethnographic research in the classroom: A simple exercise for engaging introductory students. In P. C. Rice & D. W. McCurdy (Eds.), Strategies in teaching anthropology (pp. 164–66). Prentice Hall.
Students take turns pretending to be an alien from outer space who is interviewing an American about eating habits in this first-day activity.
PALNI. (2020). LibGuides: Framework for information literacy for higher education. https://libguides.palni.edu/c.php?g=185459&p=1224981.
PALNI has gathered activities and ideas for teaching information literacy frameworks.
Salvaggio, E. (2015). Theories: Wikipedia and the production of knowledge. Wikimedia. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Theories_Wikipedia_and_the_production_of_knowledge.pdf.
This document provides topics and discussion questions for discussing Wikipedia as knowledge production.
