Ethos and Eval

Based on the work that I've done with my husband about teaching ethos as a central component of evaluating information and combining that with what I've recently been reading about transformative learning and what I saw Jeff Liles do at ALA, I've started thinking about how to restructure my Evaluating Sources workshop. I want to open it with a discussion of how students should evaluate me as a source when they come into the workshop. Questions like: what is this workshop for, what am I trying to get you to do, what's my motivation for that, what methods do you think I used to create this workshop and what audience is this really for? And then questions about how thinking about these elements influences what they think they'll get from the workshop, how they interpret the information I'm giving them, what they'll do based on that information.

I'm sure that they come in with assumptions. This would also be where I start to tell them about my assumptions and goals, but it would be through discussion rather than just my introduction to the class.