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How do we Teach the Complexity of Truth?

How do we Teach the Complexity of Truth?

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One man’s truth is another man’s fiction. Wikipedia starts off with a pretty good definition of truth then goes on to a lengthy discourse on the philosophy of truth and its relative nature.  It is one of those funny terms we all know what it means yet we don’t seem to be agree on what is true, just watch the nightly news. When we teach our students Information Literacy and help them to become better researchers and users of information…

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The Need for Literacy Skills

The Need for Literacy Skills

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There has bee a lots of discussion about what it means to be literate in the 21st Century and if there is such a thing as 21st century literacy. Ryan Bretag’s The Great Literacy Debate, Ben Gray’s post 21st century confusion and  21st century clarification. There have been discussions on twitter and plurk and these lead to Will Richardson  coordinating an illuminate discussion of the topic. I have never been great with semantics but I do know there are many…

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