Information-Media Literacy… Preparing Our Students for Success

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Information-Media LiteracyPreparing Our
Students for Success
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All learning begins with the learner.

• John Dewey

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The New Basics

• Use technology to communicate
• Work in groups
• Solve problems when answers are not self-evident
• Understand how systems work
• Collect, analyze, and organize data
• Olson (1998) School to Work Programs

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What do we ask from students in the name of
research?

• Just the facts
• What other people think
• No new ideas or synthesis from the student

Wheres the challenge?
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Students should be learning to

• think,
• question,
• find and use information to create new knowledge,
  
• synthesize and apply what they learn,
• collaborate with others to share knowledge.

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What do students learn from this type of research?

• That finding information has little significance
  for them
• That a nice neat colorful paper or PowerPoint
  presentation will impress the teacher

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What do students learn from this type of research?

• That clip art and other bells and whistles
  further impresses the teacher
• That cut and paste is sufficient AND
• That Plagiarism is acceptable.

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So What Needs to Happen?

• Ensure rigor, relevance, and relationships in the
  curriculum

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So What Needs to Happen?

• Re-design the lesson or activity so learners must
  THINK ABOUT the information they collect
• Re-design the lesson or activity so that learners
  MUST DO SOMETHING with the information they
  collect

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So What Needs to Happen?

• Re-design the lesson or activity to ADDRESS ALL
  STANDARDS content, information literacy, and
  technology
• Ask ourselves..What do we really want students
  to learn???

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Ask good questions

• Why does your animal live in that region?
• What if scientists wanted to remove one system
  from the human body. Which one should it be and
  why?

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Ask good questions

• What disease deserves the most research dollars
  and why?
• What would it take to move a country from third
  world to first world?

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This is what we want to see happening
consistently.

• Students involved in learning through social
  interaction with others.
• Students actively engaged and reflecting on their
  experience.
• Students taking responsibility for their own
  learning.

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This is what we want to see happening
consistently.

• Students learning by building on what they
  already know.
• Students confronted with authentic questions
  drawn from their own experience OR from
  real-world situations.

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This is what we want to see happening
consistently.

• Students learning and practicing higher-order
  thinking skills.
• Students involved in learning through a variety
  of experiences.
• Student work evaluated using authentic assessment
  tools.

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What do we want to see happen?

• Improved student achievement
• School to work connection
• Lifelong learning skills and a desire to learn
• Productive informed citizens

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Successful Programs

• Constructivist view of learning
• Scaffold student learning
• Set benchmarks
• Collaborative planning and team teaching
• Research says library media center is essential
  component

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Classroom Teachers
Content
Library Media Specialist
Process
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Library Media Specialist
Classroom Teachers
Content
Process
Instruction is a series of problem-solving
activities from which students learn content.
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• "Knowing content"
• is not sufficient in itself --
• Students must apply knowledge to

• construct new understandings

• solve problems

•   make decisions

• develop products

• communicate

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The Simple 4
PLAN
ACT
ORGANIZE
REFLECT
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The Simple Four

• Is easy to use
• Fits within instructional strategies
• Is aligned with ELA research standard
• Was developed for South Carolina
• Has a low risk factor
• Can change student behavior with use across the
  curriculum

Its all about Process
The Simple Four
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Students should ask themselves
The Simple Four

1. What do I need to do? Whats my assignment?
What information do I need?

1. Plan

2. What can I use to find the information I need?
Where can I find the resources I need? What
information can I use?
2. Act
3. How can I put my information together?
3. Organize
4. How will I know if I did my job well?
4. Reflect
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1. PLAN
DOGS
CATS

• Students will
• Define their information problem/need
• Determine what their assignment is
• Identify their information requirements

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Students actively engaged in problem-solving.
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Questioning
Providing Time for Brainstorming and Examining
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2. ACT

• Students learn and practice their
• Information seeking skills and strategies
• Strategies to locate and access information
  resources.

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Location and Access

• Students demonstrate the ability to
• Determine what sources are available
• Independently gather resources
• Critically evaluate the resource
• Access appropriate information systems, such as
  online databases, OPAC, electronic multimedia, WWW

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Information Search Strategies

• Students demonstrate the ability to
• Develop alternatives and to seek a variety of
  materials
• Determine which information is most/least
  important

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Information Search Strategies

• Students demonstrate the ability to
• Recognize that information can be gathered from
  many sources, including investigation,
  observation, and human resources
• Use appropriate criteria for selecting sources
  and evaluating information

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3. Organize

• Students demonstrate the ability to
• Distinguish facts from opinion (continuation of
  critical evaluation of information)
• Accurately and completely summarize/ paraphrase
  the main idea from written and oral sources

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3. Organize

• Students demonstrate the ability to
• Accurately cite sources
• Read, listen, view, and touch information
  carefully to apply information to previous
  learning to createnew knowledge

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3. Organize

• Students demonstrate the ability to
• Organize information in clear, coherent
  presentations
• Present information in ways appropriate to the
  task

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3. Organize

• Students demonstrate the ability to
• Participate effectively in discussions and
  debates
• Produce personally designed products to
  communicate content and learning

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4. Reflect

• Students demonstrate the ability to
• Demonstrate a high degree of confidence in the
  quality of the product produced
• Assess the product for completeness, strengths,
  and weaknesses

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4. Reflect

• Students demonstrate the ability to
• Develop criteria to determine the effectiveness
  of the process used to solve the problem
• Provide recommendations to improve results
• Determine the need for further information

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4. REFLECT

• Judging the result (effectiveness)
• Judging the information problem-solving process
  (efficiency)
• Self, Peer, Teacher, LMS
• 21st Century assessment tools

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Whats our Goal?

• Increase Student Academic Achievement

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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
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Schools must identify the behaviors of problem
solving and thinking in order to create academic
experiences that develop the skills and
strategies that characterize successful
intellectual work.
Information Power Building Partnerships for
Student Learning (1998) Chicago, IL American
Library Association
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• Research
• Problem Solving
• Communication

The three critical school-to-life skills
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Clarification

• Information-Media Literacy focuses on content,
  communication, information searching, analysis,
  and evaluation.

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Information literacy is at the very foundation of
our country.

• Our Founding Fathers were well read, read several
  languages, and when faced with establishing a
  government, drew on what information they had,
  thought about it, and applied the information to
  the problem.

Taylor, Joye. (2006) Information Literacy and the
School Library Media Center. Westport, CT
Libraries Unlimited.
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Information literacy is at the very foundation of
our country.

• Everyone uses information today regardless of
  occupation, education, or social and economic
  status. Educating students to achieve information
  literacy competence is a goal that must become
  the heart of, not just the school library, but
  the school!

Taylor, Joye. (2006) Information Literacy and the
School Library Media Center. Westport, CT
Libraries Unlimited.
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What Needs to Happen?

• Change the way we do school
• Which
• requires a paradigm shift by EVERYONE!

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How can we accomplish integration?
Standards
Curriculum Content
Assessment
Resources
Info. Lit Technology Education
Student Academic Achievement
Effective Lessons/ Instructional Design
Teachers Library Media Specialists
Curriculum Specialists
Effective Delivery of Lessons
Teacher Technology Education
Simple Four
Best Practices
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What Needs to Happen?

• Re-design the lesson or activity so learners must
  THINK ABOUT the information they collect.
• Re-design the lesson or activity so that learners
  MUST DO SOMETHING with the information they
  collect such as sense-making, performing, trying
  out, acting, building, etc.

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What Needs to Happen?

• Re-design the lesson or activity TO ADDRESS ALL
  standards content, information literacy, and the
  use of technology.
• DECIDE what we really want students to learn!!!

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Questions to consider

• Standards To which standards (academic,
  information literacy, technology) does this
  assignment relate?
• Curriculum What instructional strategies will I
  use to teach the targeted standards? What is
  required by my district-approved curriculum?

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Questions to consider

• Information literacy - What skills do students
  need to be successful in this lesson or unit?
  What skills will they learn from this lesson or
  unit?
• Use of technology - What resources (hardware and
  software) will best support this assignments
  objectives?

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Questions to consider

• Assessment - How will the students demonstrate
  what they learned from the content and about the
  process?

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Vision without action is a dream. Action without
vision is just passing the time. Vision with
action can change the world.

• National Productivity and Competitiveness Council
• http//www.npccmauritius.com/