Jeffrey Dowdy | Instruction & Research Services Librarian
Graduated from Florida State University in 2010 with my MLIS. Worked at Bainbridge College (now ABAC) before moving to Georgia College as Graduate Librarian. I'm mostly interested in teaching research strategy and problem solving and figuring out how to measure true gains in these areas.
Courses taught: Research in the Age of Google
Activities
Lesson Plans Contributed
Through the course of researching a topic, students will learn about differences in types of information and how to use research to gather relevant terms to narrow a topic.
This session was part of an undergraduate, critical thinking and global perspectives course. The course is offered by various disciplines on campus. This instance focused on global challenges (The Seven Revolutions developed by csis.org). For the session the students applied two frameworks to data: authority is constructed and contextual and scholarship as conversation. Students learned about a data life cycle concept with emphasis on evaluation. One of the main goals in introducing the students to the life cycle of data (see attached) was to broaden their understanding of how to search…