Information Literacy for the Digital Age

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Information Literacy for the Digital Age
Prepared by Marnie McMillan Regina Public Schools
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Who Are Our Learners? How Do They Learn?
Generation.com
The "Always On" Generation
Net-Generation
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Timesthey are achangin!

• Since 1995, sales of digital encyclopedias exceed
  sales of hardcover encyclopedias
• At least 50 of all information used worldwide is
  now in digital form
• R. Scott Granneman, Washington University
• 80 of websites that exist today will not exist
  in one year
• Ian Jukes, Dancing on Quicksand

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Timesthey are achangin!

• This year we will generate about 5 exabytes of
  new information (exabyte is 1018)

• Only 0.01 of this information will be printed
• - the rest is digital!

• First home computer - 10 MB hard drive
• 256 MB accessory

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Canadian Kids
Canadian Teachers Federation, 2003

• 5,756 students in Gr. 3-10 in every province
  territory
• 75 (b/g) - TV daily pastime
• 60 (b) - Gr. 3-6 play video or computer games
  daily
• 38 (b) - Gr. 10
• 33 (g) - Gr. 3-6 play interactive games daily
• 6 (g) - Gr. 10
• 49 (b/g) - Gr. 7-10 IM daily
• 24 (b/g) - Gr. 3-6 videos and DVDs daily
• 17 (b/g) - Gr. 7-10

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Media Use in the Home for Canadian Kids
Canadian Teachers Federation, 2003

• Media tv, videos, computer games Internet
  access

• 30 Gr. 3-6 - never have any parental input on
  what they watch, what they can play, or for how
  long
• 50 Gr. 6
• 60 Gr. 8

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Our Changing World
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Where 18 year olds get their information
10 Print 13 Audio 25 Peers 50 Multimedia
Text Complex visual images Audio Simulations Virtu
al Reality Interactivity Varied forms of
communication
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Timesthey are achangin!
What do these statistics mean to you? What are
the implications for teaching and learning?
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Kindergarten Teacher - Take your name home and
practise printing it.
Child - Teacher I cant. Our printer is broken!
Grade 1 In my purple plastic purse I am going to
put my ..
Debit card Cell phone
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Last Picture Taken from the World Trade Centre ?
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Original graphics fromhttp//www.granneman.com/do
wnloads/InformationLiteracy.pdf
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Alan November Author of Empowering Students with
Technology
The Internet is the wild, wild west and there
is no sheriff in town.
The Internet is the place where you can find
proof of essentially any belief system that
you can imagine
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Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century
It's not about integrating technology. we must
integrate literacy that reflects this new
information environment. If we do that, then
technology will come along.
David Warlick
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Critical thinking.not just technology..
How many buses does the army need to transport
1,128 soldiers if each bus holds 36
soldiers? Gr. 8 National Assessment of
Educational Progress
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4 Es of Literacy

• Expose information
• Employ information
• Express ideas compellingly
• Ethics information

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4 Es of Literacy
1. Expose information

• Reading in a global, digital library where
  anyone can be an author
• What skills are needed when most of recorded
  information is only a mouse-click away?
• How do we distinguish between goodand bad
  information?

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MAPping the Internet

• M -Meta-Web Information
• A - Author
• P - Purpose

Empowering Students With Technology Alan
November
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http//home.ican.net/alexng/can.html
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M - Meta-web Information
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M - Meta-web Information
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M - Meta-web Information
Who is linked to this site?
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A - Author
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P - Purpose
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4 Es of Literacy

• Expose information
• Employ information
• Express ideas compellingly
• Ethics information

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4 Es of Literacy
2. Employing Information

• Authentic learning goals
• No more bird reports Bernie Dodge
• As long as we keep doing what we are doing, we
  are going to keep getting more of the same.

• How can we use real world data to make meaning?

• How can students use higher order thinking
  skills to analyze, synthesize and transform
  information for real world applications?

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4 Es of Literacy
3. Express Ideas Compellingly

• How can students communicate effectively using
  image, animation, sound, video?
• Why is this important?

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4 Es of Literacy
4. Ethics Information

• Respect property of others
• Protect the truth
• Understand be responsible for their global
  voice

The more powerful the tools, the more life
experiences and inner strength students must
have to handle the power wisely.
Lowell Monke 21st Century Literacy Summit, 2005
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Where do you go from here?
What role can you play as an administrator?

• Teacher-Librarians play a key role in
  Information Literacy
• LearningPlus Teams

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