Using Information Literacy To Enhance ResearchBest

There is something in the air, and it is nothing less than the digital artifacts of over one billion people and computers networked together collectively producing over 2,000 gigabytes of new information per second. While most of our classrooms were built under the assumption that information is scarce and hard to find, nearly the entire body of human knowledge now flows through and around these rooms in one form or another, ready to be accessed by laptops, cellphones, and iPods. Michael Wesch, "A Vision of Students Today (and what Teachers Must Do)," Encyclopedia Britannica blog, Oct. 21, 2008, http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/10/a-vision-of-students-today-what-teachers-must-do/

Nadine Norris

Illinois Computing Educators Conference

February 2009

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler

Information Literacy - Defined

The ability to locate, organize, and evaluate information and use it effectively to create knowledge

vs. Technological Literacy The ability to use technology to solve problems and create products

Making Connections

Education

Family life

Food - cooking/cafes

Holidays – focus on one or two – compare the US or another country

Music – What is different/same? Who are their popular artists?

Jobs that require a particular eithnic background

Artist – What is your artist know for? When did he/she live?

History/Explorers

Name an important person in history and why is he important?

Geography – recreate the terrain of a particular region and explain its surroundings

Landmarks – monuments/castles/churches

Groups Endorsing Information Literacy

American Association of School Librarians

ASCD

Cable In The Classroom

College Board

National Council for Teachers of English

National Middle Schools Assn.

National Council of Social Studies

Partnership for 21st Century Skills

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/learningstandards/standards.cfm

http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/233601/Illinois_State_Language_Arts_Standards

Access to information has changed. Date http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/2595497078/

Learning can take place anywhere, and anytime. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicocavallotto/118668267/

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http://stats.grok.se/

Text Text Text http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/01/britannica-to-grind-wikipedia-beneath-its-heel-woth-small-moves-toward-openness.ars

wisdom of the crowds

Skills, tools, and resources to inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge http://www.flickr.com/photos/deia/7942538/

Inquiry-based process to gain knowledge and make the real-world connection

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11314268@N00/1544108261/

Develop and refine a range of questions to frame the search for new understanding

www.flickr.com/photos/86028284@N00/1124535317

Find, evaluate and select appropriate sources to answer questions

http://www.flickr.com/photos/faeryan/289547369/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/extraketchup/749312864/

Is Google the only place to look? Is Google the first place to look? There is something beside Google?

Evaluate information found in selected sources on the basis of accuracy, validity, appropriateness for needs, importance, and social and cultural context

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stewart/461099066

When you are looking for subjectivity

Is Google the only place to look?

Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format in order to make inferences and gather meaning

http://www.flickr.com/photos/adwriter/255230682/

http://sharetabs.com/qxj

What do we know about students' information seeking strategies? http://www.flickr.com/photos/15044322@N00/36968454/in/photostream/

Learner use skills, resource, & Tools to draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situtaitons, and create new knowledge http://www.boolify.org/index.php

http://21cif.com/rkitp/course/elementaryworkshop/index.html

http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=739&title=

http://www.flickr.com/photos/73645804@N00/1384954600

Works Cited

"AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner." 17 Sept. 2008. American Library Association. 10 Oct. 2008 < http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslproftools/learningstandards/standards.cfm >.

Alpert, Jessie. "We Knew the Web Was Big." Weblog post. Google Blog . 25 July 2008. 28 Sept. 2008 < http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html >.

"Internet Usage and Broadband Usage Report." 2008. 16 Oct. 2008 < http://www.internetworldstats.com/am/us.htm >.

Lejnieks, Carly. "A Generation Unplugged." 12 Sept. 2008. Harris Interactive. 15 Oct. 2008 < http://www.ctia.org/advocacy/research/index.cfm/aid/11483 >.

Salpeter, Judy. "21st Century Skills: Will Our Students Be Prepared?" Techlearning . 15 Oct. 2003. 30 Oct. 2008 < http://www.techlearning.com/story/showarticle.php?articleid=15202090&pgno=3 >.

“ Information Behavior of the Researcher of the Future.” 11 Jan. 2008 < http://www.bl.uk/news/pdf/googlegen.pdf >

Sanford, Jason. "Knowledge Smackdown: Wikipedia vs. Citizendium by Jason Sanford." StorySouth: a journal of literature from the New South. 22 Sept. 2006. 24 Feb. 2009 < http://www.storysouth.com/comment/2006/09/knowledge_smackdown_wikipedia.html >.

Singer, Adam. "49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats." Social Media, Marketing, PR | The Future Buzz. 12 Jan. 2009. 24 Feb. 2009 < http://thefuturebuzz.com/2009/01/12/social-media-web-20-internet-numbers-stats/ >.