Every Classroom a Library: Information Literacy Skills Every Teacher Needs

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Every Classroom a LibraryInformation Literacy
Skills Every Teacher Needs

• Hazel Clark , M.A., B.ED
• Teacher Librarian
• School District 44, North Vancouver, B.C.

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Overview

• Information Literacy
• Its all about the Questions
• Web Essentials
• Information Use
• Resources
• Plagiarism
• Internet Safety

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Information literate students

• Collaborate with others
• Critically analyze to solve problems
• Base decisions on current, accurate information
• Use a variety of media formats
• Communicate effectively

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Information Literacy Competency Standards for
Higher Education
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Conference Board of Canada Employability Skills

• Fundamental Skills - Manage Information
• Locate, gather and organize information
• Access, analyze and apply knowledge skills
• Think critically

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Internet Usage Facts and News

• The Internet is the main choice for
  schoolwork, but students say they want better
  authentication skills
• From Grades 6 to 11, 75 of kids report doing
  schoolwork online on a daily or almost daily
  basis.
• 68 responded How do I tell if information you
  find on the Net is true or not.

Young Canadians in a Wired World http//www.media-
awareness.ca/ english/research/YCWW/phaseII/upload
/YCWWII_Student_Survey.pdf
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School Library Program and Technology Use Survey

• 58 assign activities that must be completed
  using the internet once a month
• 39 never incorporate searching strategies
• 72 only sometimes include evaluating of websites
  

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Young Canadians in a Wired World. Figure 26, p.
52 http//www.media-awareness.ca/
english/research/YCWW/phaseII/upload/YCWWII_Studen
t_Survey.pdf
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Young Canadians in a Wired World. Figure 27, p.
53 http//www.media-awareness.ca/
english/research/YCWW/phaseII/upload/YCWWII_Studen
t_Survey.pdf
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Myths

• Its easy to find information on the Internet.
• All search sites are basically the same.

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Most of the stuff on the information highway is
roadkill.

• John Updike

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Myths

• The Internet is so vast no one can track down a
  plagiarized source.
• Only the librarian can teach information literacy
  skills.

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• If you always do
• what youve always done,
• you always get
• what youve always got.

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Its all About the QuestionsRedesigning
Assignments

• LOTS to
• Knowledge
• Comprehension
• Application

HOTS Analysis Synthesis Evaluation
Find out about Buddhism. Is Buddhism a religion?
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Criteria for a Critical Question

• Meaning full to the student
• Support curriculum
• Provide opportunities for original and critical
  thinking
• Allow the researcher to examine alternatives and
  make justifiable choices
• Allow the researcher to apply skills and
  knowledge beyond school applications
• Provide opportunities for collaborative learning

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Critical Thinking Actions

• The Critical Question should involve high level
• thinking skills, for example
• Determine
• Judge
• Resolve
• Recommend
• Make an informed decision
• Synthesize
• Evaluate

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Creating Critical QuestionsRedesigning
Assignments Activity
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Web Essentials

• Reading a Website
• Search Engines and Directories
• Keywords
• Evaluating Web Content
• Determining Bias

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Search Engines Directories
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Search Engines
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Directories
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Specialty Search Engines Directories
FindSoundsSearch the Web for Sounds
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Keywords

• Topic type
• Wildcards teen gives teen, teens, teenager,
  teenagers
• Boolean searching greyhound -bus
• Phrase searching using quotation marks
• Use the rule of 10

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Internet Search Tools Quick Reference Guide
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Internet Search Strategies Activity
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Pathfinders
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Young Canadians in a Wired World. Table 12, p.
56 http//www.media-awareness.ca/
english/research/YCWW/phaseII/upload/YCWWII_Studen
t_Survey.pdf
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Evaluating Web Content

• Why evaluate?
• Anyone can publish a website
• No quality control
• Quality varies substantially
• No standards

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Evaluating Web Content

• The 5Ws of Evaluating Web Content
• What?
• Where?
• Who?
• Why?
• When?
• Really?

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DHMO.org

• List five characteristics of dihydrogen monoxide?
  
• What are some of the risks associated with
  dihydrogen monoxide? ( i.e. What is its relation
  to cancer?)
• Should DHMO be a banned substance?
• Should it require special training to handle and
  transport?
• What could YOU do about DHMO?
• What does the Environment Protection Agency think
  of DHMO?

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Determining Bias
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Evaluating Web Content Activity
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Information Use Synthesizing Information
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Graphic Organizers Notetaking
Problem Solution Outline
Seeing Both Sides
SQ4R
Online Note Taking Log
Idea Diagram
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William ShakespeareA Biography

• William Shakespeare, the son of John Shakespeare
  and Mary Arden, was born in 1564 in the English
  town of Stratford-upon-Avon. Since he came from
  a middle class family, he probably attended the
  local grammar school to study Latin. William
  left school when he was about 15 years old. In
  1582, when he was 18, he married 26-year-old Anne
  Hathaway. By 1585 he was the father of two
  daughters and one son. Throughout the next eight
  years, Shakespeare was said to have left his
  family in Stratford and moved to London to begin
  a career as a playwright. Because of an outbreak
  of the plague in London around 1592, most of the
  theatres are said to have closed down, but were
  reopened two years later. William Shakespeare
  joined a famous acting group called Lord
  Chamberlains Men, and in 1599, built a theatre
  with his troupe. The Globe, as it was called,
  held many performances by the actors. In 1613, a
  wealthy Shakespeare retired from the theatre
  business and returned back to London because the
  Globe had burned down. He bought a house and a
  large piece of property to settle down in, and
  died to 1616. Approximately seven years later,
  the first collection of his plays were published.
  

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Return to Power (2nd Term as Prime Minister)

• Trudeau defeated the 1990 Quebec referendum
  proposal for Quebec independence

• Also in 1982, Pierre created the Canadian Charter
  of Rights and Freedoms

• Pierre Trudeau made the 1982 Constitution of
  Canada

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Highlighting Text
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Paraphrasing Quoting
http//www.roseburg.k12.or.us/rhs/library/pdfpage/
researchprocess.html
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Downsiders

• Neal Shusterman
• Novel Study

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Conflict
Man
Society
Nature
Self
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Science Study Guide
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5.What is the unit used to measure work?

• Newtons
• Kilometres
• Joules
• Grams

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Information Use and Synthesizing Information
Activity
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Resources
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Finding the Good Stuff Activity
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Opportunities for Imagination

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• "There are three types of people, those who
  know, those who don't know, and  those who know
  where to look. Cicero

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Avoiding Plagiarism
Strategies Awareness Detection Prevention
Plagiarism
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Wouldnt it just be easier to copy? No one will
ever know. http//www.uky.edu/Libraries/FindIt/mod
1/01-overload-nf.html
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Strategies for Awareness

• Educate your students
• Educate yourself
• Make penalties for plagiarism clear

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Strategies for Detection
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Shade TreeThe Oak In my back yardHolds twisted
rope and woodand knows the name of every child
that swings.
Jeanne Cassler

• The Oak Tree
• The Oak
• In my back yard
• Holds twisted rope and wood
• and knows the name of every child
• that swings

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Strategies for Prevention
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Copy from one, its plagiarismcopy from two,
its research. Wilson
Mizner (1876-1933)
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Internet Safety
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Young Canadians in a Wired World. Figure 48, p.
76 http//www.media-awareness.ca/
english/research/YCWW/phaseII/upload/YCWWII_Studen
t_Survey.pdf
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Internet Safety

• The Web
• The Bullys New Playground
• Sex Cyberstalker took
• over a Girls Computer

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Bullying vs Cyber Bullying
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Opportunities for Imagination

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• "There are three types of people, those who
  know, those who don't know, and  those who know
  where to look." Cicero