We won't be fooled again: Teaching critical thinking via evaluation of hoax and historical revisionist websites in a library credit course

College and Undergraduate Libraries

Volumn 15, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 211-230

  Mathson, Stephanie M ^a   Lorenzen, Michael G ^a  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical thinking; History; Information literacy; Library instruction; Web evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 71049127840     PISSN: 10691316     EISSN: 15452530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10691310802177226     Document Type: Article

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