Brief
Biography
Mary Ann
Fitzgerald, Ph.D.
updated 1-14-08
Mary
Ann Fitzgerald, Associate Professor of Instructional Technology, is in
her tenth year at the University
of Georgia. She teaches school library media courses and
formerly directed the School Library Media
Program.
She taught in Georgia
public schools for 11 years, and holds teaching credentials in the
areas of
middle grades education, school library media, and music education. She earned her Ph.D. in Instructional
Technology from The University of Georgia in 1998, holding University
Fellowship scholarships for three consecutive years.
Her dissertation, The Cognitive Process of
Information Evaluation: A Collective Case
Study, won a Certificate of Recognition Dissertation Award from the
Association for Library and Information Science Education.
Her article “Evaluating information: An
information literacy challenge,” published in School
Library Research, won an award as one of the “Top Twenty
Library Instruction Articles of 1999.”
With Dr. Michael Orey and Dr. Robert Branch, she edited and
co-edited
the Educational Media and Technology
Yearbook several years.
Dr.
Fitzgerald’s research focuses on the process of critical thinking,
strategies
for evaluating information, and assessing higher order thinking skills,
especially within the context of digital information environments. In addition, she was actively involved in
evaluating The Gateway,
an online
indexed lesson plan repository sponsored by the US Department of
Education and
the ERIC Clearinghouse for Information and Technology.
She worked on the NASA-funded NLIST Project
for several years, helping construct inquiry-based leadership materials
for
science education programs, tying in scientific habits of mind with
interdisciplinary higher-order thinking skills.
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