This lesson plan from Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts, edited by Patricia Bravender, Hazel McClure, and Gayle Schaub and contributed by Robert Farrell, provides students with a practical analogy for scholarly inquiry using an example they are all familiar with, crime scene investigation.

A New York Times lesson plan to help students critically examine and evaluate news in our 'post-truth' world context. Two sections - The Problems and The Possible Solutions - with practical activities and questions throughout.

While bullshit may reach its apogee in the political domain, this is not a course on political bullshit. Instead, we will focus on bullshit that comes clad in the trappings of scholarly discourse. Traditionally, such highbrow nonsense has come couched in big words and fancy rhetoric, but more and more we see it presented instead in the guise of big data and fancy algorithms — and these quantitative, statistical, and computational forms of bullshit are those that we will be addressing in the present course.

This is a collection of resources, ideas, plans, and thoughts developed by SLCC Professor Lon Schiffbauer. This was presented as the 2018 SLCC Distinguished Faculty Lecture.