Information Literacy

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Information Literacy
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Information Technology Collaboration
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The mission of the school library media program

• is to ensure that students and staff are
  effective users of ideas and information BY
• Providing intellectual and physical access to
  materials in all formats
• Providing instruction to foster competence and
  stimulate interest in reading, viewing, and using
  information and ideas.
• Working with other educators to design and
  implement learning strategies to meet the needs
  of individual students

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Statewide Initiative


Students will have a greater opportunity to be
prepared for today and tomorrow when they become
self-directed, lifelong learners who are informed
citizens, responsible workers, and successful
students.
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Statewide Initiative


..To see information literacy and technology
education become an essential integrated
component in each districts instructional
initiatives ..to see students involved ..to see
all educators get it ..to see technology used
appropriately and effectively
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What is information literacy?

• Information literacy is
• ability to access, evaluate and use information
  from multiple formats -- books, newspapers,
  videos, CD-ROMs, or the Web.
• Information literacy means
• application of problem-solving skills in
  situations students face in all their subject
  areas.
• set of competencies, skills that will grow with
  students, even when current operating systems,
  search engines or platforms are obsolete.

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What are Information Skills?

• Making decisions
• Analyzing
• Locating
• Accessing
• Using
• Synthesizing
• Evaluating
• Cooperating

PresentingDiscussingTrouble ShootingProblem
solvingDesigningCreatingReadingComparingContr
asting
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Inquiry-based learning implies involvement that
leads to understanding

"Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember,
involve me and I understand."
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1. Inquiry-based Learning asks questions that
come from the higher levels of Blooms Taxonomy.
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2. Inquiry-based Learning involves questions that
are interesting and motivating to students.
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3. Inquiry-based Learning utilizes a wide variety
of resources so students can gather information
and form opinions.
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4. Teachers play a new role as guide or
facilitator.
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5. Meaningful products come out of inquiry-based
learning.
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Does This Ring a Bell?

• Common practice for assignments
• Background to material provided by teacher
• Textbook work is done
• A project in the media center is assigned with
  worksheet asking FACT questions
• Bird is selected to research
• Students are introduced to a few resources OR
  students hit the WWW
• Students copy information from sources onto their
  papers
• Papers turned in for grade

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They learned to cut and paste.They learned that
finding information means nothing much to
them.They learned to provide a nice neat
colorful paper to impress the teacher. They
might even use clip art to dress it up and
further impress the teacherWhy they even
learned to NO!YES
Plagiarize
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• What is the problem?
• Need to integrate the information
  technology/information literacy into district
  curriculum/instructional program

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• Student Information Literacy and
• Technology Integration Continuum

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Definition/Introduction

• Information literacy is a set of abilities
  requiring individuals to "recognize when
  information is needed and have the ability to
  locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed
  information - to become independent life-long
  learners"

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Definition/Introduction

• Technology Education focuses on incremental
  skills in using and applying technology tools for
  relevant, meaningful, instructional activities
• Information Literacys focus is on content,
  communication, information searching, analysis
  and evaluation

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What Needs to Happen?

• Re-design the activity so learners must THINK
  ABOUT the information they collect
• Re-design so that learners MUST DO SOMETHING with
  the information they collect such as
  sense-making, performing, trying out, acting,
  building, etc.
• Address standards, content, information literacy,
  use of technology
• THINK..What do you really want students to
  learn???

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What Needs to Happen?

• Content - Area of study
• Standards - Which standards can I pull into this
  assignment?
• Curriculum - How will this be taught to meet
  standards?
• Information literacy - What skills do students
  need from Grade Level Curriculum Overlay?
• Use of technology - What resource(s) would best
  support this assignments objectives?
• Assessment - How will the teacher and student
  know what and how much they have accomplished?

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Guidelines

• Media Specialists and teachers collaborate and
  form partnerships to plan instruction and
  implement research activities

• Begin early with small projects

• Provide information skill instruction at time of
  need

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Guidelines

• Have a plan

• Make appropriate resources and activities a known
  factor

• Focus on the learning standards and objectives

• Media specialists and teachers evaluate projects
  together
• Refine as needed

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Making it Easier and More Effective

• Collaborate and divide the work
• Use the Information Literacy/Technology Grade
  Level Curriculum Overlay
• Use the Big6? to facilitate students through
  problem solving
• Integrate a variety of resources including
  productivity software, selected web sites, and
  print materials

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Its about Process

• What needs to be done?
• What can I use to find what I need?
• Where can I find what I need?
• What information can I use?
• How can I put my information together?
• How will I know if I did my job well?