I do not believe this article is available free online (yet)--but wanted to bring it to your attention. In the latest issue of Skeptical Inquirer (v 28 n 3 May/June 2005), Brad Matthies, a librarian at Butler University in Indiana, writes about enforcing critical thinking skills via library instruction. Matthies bases his curriculum on the ancronym CRITIC.
Even though we already apply these principles at SWOSU in our library instruction classes this article is still a very good read and you should go search it out.
Part two of my challenge is for all skeptics in education to seek out an often-overlooked skeptical partner in academia: the librarian. By the very nature of their profession, librarians are constantly organizing, evaluating, and seleting all formats of information to support the educational enterprise.
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