FRIT 7234 Mini Lesson 3

1. Mini Lesson 3
Drew Elrod
FRIT 7234– Information Fluency and Inquiry
Georgia Southern University
Spring 2014

2. ISTE-NETS Standards
• 2. Communication and
collaboration
– Students use digital media
and environments to
communicate and work
collaboratively, including at
a distance, to support
individual learning and
contribute to the learning
of others.
• a. Interact, collaborate,
and publish with peers,
experts, or others
employing a variety of
digital environments and
media
• 4. Critical thinking,
problem solving, and
decision making
– Students use critical
thinking skills to plan and
conduct research, manage
projects, solve problems,
and make informed
decisions using appropriate
digital tools and resources.
• a. Identify and define
authentic problems and
significant questions for
investigation

3. Essential Questions
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What is plagiarism?
What does digital citizenship mean to you?
How can you improve your digital literacy?
How can you avoid plagiarism?

4. Understanding
• Students will understand what plagiarism is
and how to avoid plagiarizing information.
• Students will gain knowledge about proper
digital citizenship.
• Students will understand what digital literacy
is and reflect on their digital literacy skills.

5. Performance
• Students will be in small groups (2-3) and will
view, read, reflect, and inform the rest of the
class on the resource given to them by the
teacher. The resources will consist of
material found on the following curated list:
– http://list.ly/list/Eaa-ethical-use-of-information
• Students will address the key points of their given
resource related to ethical use of information (digital
citizenship/literacy, or plagiarism).

6. Assessment
• Students will be assessed based on the
teacher observation of each group and
collaboration between class members.
• Students will be assessed on the
presentation of information based on the
overall concept of ethical use of
information.

7. Technology
• The students will use the following resources
to learn more about ethical use of
information. This curated list was created
using list.ly
– http://list.ly/list/Eaa-ethical-use-of-information