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Event: Evidence-based Mindsets in an Era of Information Confusion by William Badke - Presentation hosted by the Institute for Information Literacy at Purdue

  • 1.  Event: Evidence-based Mindsets in an Era of Information Confusion by William Badke - Presentation hosted by the Institute for Information Literacy at Purdue

    Posted Aug 11, 2025 04:56 PM

    Hi all,

     

    Please join us for an upcoming online free presentation hosted by the Institute for Information Literacy at Purdue. Feel free to share with your colleagues who may be interested in attending!

     

    Title: Evidence-based Mindsets in an Era of Information Confusion: An Information Literacy Approach

    Presenter: Professor William Badke

    When: September 12

    Time: 2 pm Eastern 

    Register for the Zoom event: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/Gj9V4ifiT7OPHEGimAcwfQ

     

    Please join us for this presentation by Professor William Badke, Associate Librarian for Information Literacy and Associated Canadian Theological Schools at Trinity Western University, who will share his work on fostering evidence-based mindsets in information literacy education. Badke will discuss the challenge of information confusion--the inability of many people, including our students, to determine what information is trustworthy and what is not. Professor Badke's talk will provide direction to attendees to engage with students in ways that takes us away from facile answers like "Use a checklist" or "Only access scholarly sources" to address the challenges we face in today's information environment.

     

    Related reading: 

    Badke, William. "Expertise and Authority in an Age of Crowdsourcing," in Not Just Where to Click: Teaching Students How to Think about Information. Ed. Troy Swanson; Heather Jagman, 191-215. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2015.

     

     

    Clarence Maybee

    Associate Dean for Learning

    Professor and W. Wayne Booker Chair in Information Literacy

    Director, Institute for Information Literacy at Purdue

    Libraries and School of Information Studies

    Purdue University

    cmaybee@purdue.edu

    765-494-7603

     

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