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Keynote Theater #005: Filter Bubbles. Games for Teaching Information Literacy Skills, Felicia A. Smith. Active Learning Activities Two hydrogen atoms bumped into each other recently.
One said,"Why do you look so sad? " The other responded,"I lost an electron. " Concerned, the first one asked, "Are you sure? " The other replied, "I'm positive. " Admittedly, this is a silly joke, but it represents a creative way to introduce search terms into a class discussion or simply get a chuckle from students in an information literacy course.
The original instructor for this course taught two one-credit sections during the spring semesters of 2004 and 2005. I was assigned by the original instructor the task of incorporating active learning activities into one of the two weekly literacy skills sections and checking for continuity between the lecture, hands-on demonstration, and assignments. Research Student boredom does not reflect negatively on the original information literacy instructor.
Brain dominance is related to learning style preferences. Application Implementation Conclusion Acknowledgement Appendix.
Information Literacy in the Digital Age. Senior's Guide to Computers - A Beginner's Tutorial for the Microsoft Windows PC, hardware, software, security, accessibility, internet, backup and email. Library Skills, Information Skills, and Information Literacy: Implications for Teaching and Learning. James O. Carey, Assistant Professor, University of South Florida One intent of national-level reports such as the Secretary's Commission on Secondary Skills and America 2000 is to foster approaches to the education of our children that go beyond factual information to conceptual learning; beyond isolated rules to principles for application; and beyond textbook problems with known, predictable solutions to real problems with solutions that are unique to students and their interpretations of their resources and environments.
Discussions of higher-order learning are not new. Bloom's taxonomy includes analysis and synthesis skills. Bruner describes “problem finding,” and Gagné distinguishes problem-solving and cognitive strategies as categories of learned capability, while constructivist thinking includes authentic, situated problem solving. Schools used to have libraries with librarians. Then rapid change began. Introduction to Information Literacy in the K12 Classroom/Chapter 4. Introduction to Information Literacy in the K12 Classroom/Table of Contents Informational Literacy With ELL Learners Informational literacy is important to all learners but has special importance for the job of TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and ELLs (English Language Learners).
This type of learner is not only learning the academic aspects of the content material, but also learning linguistic proficiency of another language. Thedaringlibrarian - home. Information Literacy for the Google Generation. The Knowledge Sharing Place. The Literacy Web at The University of Connecticut Homepage. School libraries are still about teaching students 'to use information efficiently and ethically' Information Literacy Training for All - The Outliers.
FEATURE Information Literacy Training for All The Outliers by Lark Birdsong, Birdsong Research The Information Literacy Initiative at the University of Washington Information School is a funded, active organization that began in 2007 after the successful training of a group of youth labeled “at-risk.”
In the course of thinking about providing this kind of training, I came across bq’s editorial in the September 2008 issue of Searcher magazine in which she discusses the concept of “outliers.” At that time I had just started another information literacy class for women without homes at The Gathering Place, a day shelter for homeless women in Denver, Colo. I wanted to define the population I was working with and the term outliers stuck and helped me focus on the population the Information Literacy Initiative currently serves. Teaching Information Literacy: Tips and Resources. 7/1/2003 By: Leonarda Brush What is Information Literacy?
The Final Report of the American Library Association Presidential Committee on Information Literacy states, "Information literate people know how to find, evaluate, and use information effectively to solve a particular problem or make a decision — whether the information they select comes from a computer, a book, a government agency, a film, or any number of other possible resources. " This seems easy enough to teach on the surface, but when you take into consideration what students do with the information they gather, many factors enter into the learning equation. Watch LION: Library Information literacy Online Network Episodes.
About this original series Welcome to LION TV, an Online Network devoted to helping you learn all about the world of Information.
Whether you are wanting to learn how to do Research, use Google more effectively, understand what is an Authoritative web site, or learn about a myriad of issues related to Information; this ever growing network will assist you with your information needs. Content at this site comes from the ANimated Tutorial Sharing Project (see and is produced by professional librarians who work together across institutions to develop programs.
Participants in this project agree to make these episodes openly available for others to link to, embed, share, download, or edit, provided the appropriate credit is assigned to the author (further information about all rights can be found by looking at the Creative Commons License associated with each epidsode.) If you wish to Download content, you may do so by selecting Files and Links under each episode. Information Literacy Resources. TRAILS: Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills.
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