These librarians co-taught 1st year Pharmacy students at U of Waterloo, focusing on drug and medical information and critical thinking (click on the 1st image for a large view; click…
10 Skills for the Future Workforce
This is my day for The Atlantic. Another great article, the first three parts of a 5 part series on the future workforce & the skills necessary: 1. Sense Making:…
Curious Enough to Question “Orthodoxies”
This blog post is being posted to Future Ready 365 today. Are you a future ready information professional? A few weeks ago Jane Dysart, Kim Silk and I were fortunate…
Innovations bring promise & peril
Fantastic SLA PH&T Division conference at the Hilton Bonnet Creek in Orlando, began with Kevin Davies, Chief Editor Bio-IT World and author of The $1,000 Genome (Free Press 2010). He’s…
Curiosity doesn’t kill cats, or ideas
I know what great cat curiousity certainly hasn’t killed, or even maimed or slowed down in any fashion. Jane Dysart. Jane is one curious character (if I called her a…
Critical thinking: more than for decision-making, it’s how digital natives engage
I have the incredible privilege of giving a session with Mary Lee Kennedy and Deb Wallace of Harvard Business School on critical thinking at SLA 2009 tomorrow. Unfortunately, Mary Lee won’t…