Information Skills

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Information Skills
Presented by Sue Cartwright
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Why Information Skills?

• Social justice
• DETE requirements
• Key Competencies

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Key Competencies

• collecting, analysing organising ideas
  information
• expressing ideas and information
• solving problems
• using technology
• working with others in teams

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COLLECTING, ANALYSING ORGANISING INFORMATION

• Establishing the purpose for collecting
  information identifying possible sources
• Locating, selecting organising relevant
  information
• Critically analysing information for relevance,
  bias accuracy
• Critically evaluating sources methods of
  obtaining information

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Core Skills
Managing tasks solving problems Working with
and relating to others Applying design
creativity Managing developing self
Applying numeracy Applying technology Communicatio
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Why Information Skills?

• Social justice
• DETE requirements
• Key Competencies

• Learning Futures
• Paradigm shifts

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Paradigm shifts
Teacher-centred ? Student-centred
Transmitter ? Facilitator RBT ?
RBL Content ? Competencies/Skills
Product ? Process
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Information Skills
are Thinking Skills
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How can we teach Information Skills?

• not in isolation
• RBL not RBT
• process not just product
• use Blooms Taxonomy
• in collaboration with Teacher Librarian

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Reshaping assignments
Given the right assignment, a student can
download, word process and print a 1,000 word
assignment on almost any topic in about 4
minutes. Here are some ideas you can use to
limit the cut and paste factor of assignments
done by your students...
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Rewriting assignment questions

• Change the audience
• Personalise the question
• Vary the format.
• Include local content
• Change the level of student personal involvement

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More keys to success

• Bibliography
• Process not just product
• Make effective searching on information
  technology part of the assignment outcomes
• Clearly state requirements, time-line and
  assessment criteria
• Build in choice flexibility for different
  levels
• Monitor progress, use checkpoints
• Plan ahead!!