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Tuesday,
November 27 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
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Webinar Overview
Each day, Google users
perform more than 2.9 billion searches. Wikipedia claims over 10
million articles in 253 languages. Today's students have greater
access to information than ever before. As Keeling (2004) articulated
in Learning Reconsidered: A Campus-Wide Focus on the Student
Experience, "...knowledge is no longer a scarce - or stable -
commodity. (It) is changing so rapidly that specific information may
become obsolete before a student graduates and has the opportunity to
apply it."
And while this vast quantity of often conflicting information should
make students less confident in what they know and believe, it seems
often to have the opposite effect. For many college students, highly
dubious information passes as truth based only on the credibility of
the Internet or some other source they believe to be authoritative.
Most students lack the skills to evaluate the claims of these
sources.
Despite decades of research, few teachers or practitioners can claim
mastery in eliciting critical thinking or reflective judgment in
others. This session will provide practical, hands-on activities to
help participants gain the skills they need to enhance their own
critical thinking and reflective judgment in order to improve these
skills in their students in a variety of contexts.
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Webinar Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Appreciate
the value of reflective judgment as a learning outcome
- Understand
the role of educators in helping students to develop reflective
judgment
- Express
improved confidence in their own critical thinking and
reflective judgment
- Articulate
strategies for creating/adapting programs which promote
reflective judgment
- Identify
methods of measuring/assessing reflective judgment
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Webinar Speaker
Dr. Adam Peck
serves as the Dean of Student Affairs at Stephen F. Austin State
University (SFA) in Nacogdoches, Texas. He also serves as adjunct faculty
in the graduate program for Student Affairs and in the department of
Communication and Contemporary Culture at SFA. He has worked in
higher education for over seventeen years. Adam writes and speaks
frequently on topics as varied as cultivating creativity, critical
thinking, and assessment methodologies.
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Innovative Educators
3277 Carbon PL
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Announcement
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In recognition of
excellence in community college teaching and leadership, the League
is proud to announce the establishment of the John & Suanne
Roueche Excellence Awards.
Click here to submit your college's
nomination(s) for the Awards.
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Innovative Educators Webinar: Reflective Judgment: Teaching Students To Think Critically In A Time Of Information Overload
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