The Big6: Information

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The Big6Information Technology Skills
for Student Success (Day 2)

• Rob Darrow
• Robdarrow_at_cusd.com

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A Little About Me

• Educator, 26 years (Grades K-8)
• LMT at intermediate school (7-8) that now has
  over 700 students carrying laptop computers to
  school
• Big6 user and trainer - 11 years
• Coordinator, Online high school and Teaching
  American History
• History Day coach

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A Little About You

• Librarians (20, 15-20, 10-15, less 5)
• What did you used to teach?
• Subjects (history, English, science, math,
  special ed, admin/resource teachers, library,
  other?)

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My Thoughts

• In an information rich society, you need more
  trained professionals
• Students NEED trained teachers and professionals
  to guide them in how to use information both
  print and digital
• More critical to have trained teachers guiding
  students in the use of information than ever
  before

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The Big 6 - Its all about

• The use of information
• Organizing information
• Sifting information
• Producing quality information
• Teaching kids how to do this so they achieve!

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Big6 Quiz

• Your results
• Why the Big6?
• How would you explain the Big6?
• Application in variety of areas
• What did you learn from Bob?

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Others Thoughts from Others About Information
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Thomas Jefferson

• Information is the currency of democracy.

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Ronald Reagan

• Information is the oxygen of the modern age.
• It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire,
  it wafts across the electrified borders.
• June 14, 1989

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Timothy Leary

• In the information age, you dont teach
  philosophy as they did after feudalism. You
  perform it. If Aristotle were alive today hed
  have a talk show.
• - Feb 1989

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Pauline KaelArt Critic Newsweek/The New Yorker

• In the arts, the critic is the only independent
  source of information. The rest is advertising.
• - 1973

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Why?Some other opinions
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Opportunity

• Calvin and Hobbes cartoon
• Then forget it!
• BC cartoon Define Learn

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Why do this?

• To meet the needs of the teachers and students in
  our schools and guide them in acquiring the
  information literacy skills they needat any
  time, from any where.

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Goals for Today

• Review the Big6.
• Focus on the Micro (Bob did the Macro)
• Lesson Planning.
• How does it look in every day use?
• Write Big6 lessons that fit your subject.
• Integrate the Big6 with the web

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Big6 Plan of Action /Implementation Handout

• Identify what you already do
• Identify what you would like to do
• Possible collaborators (name the teachers)

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Information Technology Literacy The Big6 Skills


1. Task Definition
2. Info Seeking Strategies
3. Location Access
4. Use of Information
5. Synthesis
6. Evaluation
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Information Literacy

• To be information literate, a person must be
  able to recognize when information is needed and
  have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use
  effectively the needed information.
• American Library Association (1989)

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Information Literacy and the Big6A little
history

• 1436 - Printing Press
• 1776 Declaration of Independence
• 1803 - 1806 Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and
  Clark
• 1860-1864 Civil War
• 1917 World War I
• 1941 World War II
• 1972 First personal computer
• 1974 The term information literacy first used
  
• 1980 Internet
• 1987 Big6 Framework Published
• 1992 World Wide Web

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Big6 Translates Information Literacy Skills into
Systematic Stages

• Simple yet complex.

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Handbook p. 33
InfoLit
The Big6 Skills
The Super 3
The Little 12 Skills
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Big6 Practice Big6 Handbook

• Pages 42-45

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The Big6 Card Activity

• Acronym TILUSE
• Task Definition
• Information Seeking Strategies
• Location and Access
• Use of Information
• Synthesis
• Evaluation

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BREAK
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Group Big6 Lesson

• Discuss the Big6 homework you completed for Bob
• How did it work?
• How would you compare the same lesson without
  using the Big6?

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Group Big6 Lesson

• Note A Big6 lesson usually focuses on one stage
  of the Big6
• E.g. Science research project
• Develop a Big6 Lesson

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Instructional Design and PlanningMicro and Macro

• Read Around p. 71 - 72

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Implementation Strategies

• Context the process
• information problem solving - the Big6
• Context technology in context
• technology within the process
• Context curriculum
• real needs in real situations
• assignments papers, reports, projects
• skills x unit matrix

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Big 6 Going to the movies
An implementation strategyvisiting classrooms
use Big6 Bookmark
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Micro Planning - Guidelines

• View your existing units and lessons in relation
  to the Big6.
• Explain assignments in a Big6 perspective.
• Focus on different Big6 stages with different
  lessons.
• Examples?

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Big Juiciesp. 106

• Important units in the curriculum
• have a longer duration
• reach many students
• involve a report, project, or product
• use multiple resources
• involve a range of teaching methods

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Macro Planning p. 151-163

• Schoolwide librarians job
• In groups
• what are the big juicies in your school?
• On your own (implementation ideas)
• Think about your school
• Jot down 5 big juicies for fall and spring
  any subject/any teacher

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Standardized Testing in Georgia?

• Grade levels? Subjects?

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Standardized Testing

• How does information literacy and the Big6 fit
  into testing?
• Handbook p. 136-137 homework organizer

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Technology

• Okay,
• but what about
• technology?

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Cartoon

• Our teacher is getting smarteryesterday she
  gave us homework we couldnt even find on the
  Internet.

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Background StatisticsInformation

• Today, the amount of information in the world
  doubles every two years.
• In the year 2010, it is predicted that the amount
  of information will double every 72 hours.

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Background StatisticsInternet

• According to a recent UCLA study (2003)
• Internet use at every age continues to increase
  and in some age ranges, access approaches 100
  percent.
• http//www.ccp.ucla.edu/pages/internet-report.asp

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Ages 12-18
UCLA Internet Report. http//www.ccp.ucla.edu/page
s/internet-report.asp
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Internet Users By States
Oct 2003
Sept 2001

• A Nation Online Entering the Broadband Age.
• U.S. Department of Commerce. September 2004.

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Background StatisticsChildren and Internet

• Three-fourths of all U.S. kids ages 12 to 17 go
  online several times each week (17 million).
• Cyber Dialogue. July, 2001, www.pewinternet.org
• Currently 88 million offspring ages 0-20 in U.S.
• Tapscott (1998). Growing Up Digital .
• More school-age children in the nation use
  computers at school than at home.
• Newburger (2001). Home Computers and Internet Use
  in the United States August 2000. U.S. Census
  Bureau, Current Population Reports, August 2000.

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National Ed Tech Plan 2004

• Internet Use is growing the fastest among
  children, ages 2-5. (2002 UCLA Internet Report)
• 1999 NCES Report
• 72 percent of all first graders used a home
  computer on a weekly basis during the summer
• 97 percent of kindergarteners had access to a
  computer at school or home
• www.nationaledtechplan.org

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National Ed Tech Plan 2004

• Teens spend more time online using the Internet
  than watching television.
• 94 percent of online teens use the Internet for
  school-related research.

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Challenge Quality

• In a study of 500 Web sites used by Colorado high
  school students to do research, only 27 of the
  sites were judged to be reliable for academic
  research!

Ebersol, Samuel, Uses and Gratifications of the
Web among Students, Journal of Computer-Mediated
Communication, 6(1) September 2000,
www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol6/issue1/ebersole.html
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Internet Blogs

• The number of web logs or blogs is doubling in
  size every 6 months.
• Now, more than 7.8 million blogs.
• Check out MySpace.com or Xanga.com for teen
  blogs.
• MySpace gets twice the number of daily hits than
  Google

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The world we live in
Digital kids and Analog Adults
Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants
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Children and Internet The Facts

• High school students todayfirst generation to
  grow up on the Internet
• Students internalize technology use, while adults
  have to adopt it

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An example
Bedtime Story Cartoon on computer
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The Solution?

• Dont use technology or the Internet?
• Discourage Web Use?
• Filtering?

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Alternative Solutions

• To focus on process as well as content
• Information Literacy!
• Discriminating users of information.
• Learn essential information technology skills!
• The Big6!

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Implementation CONTEXT!!

• WARNING!
• Teaching information technology skills out of
  context is hazardous to your students health.

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Technology Out of Context (p. 57)

• Electronic spreadsheets

• Word processing

• E-Mail

• Spell/grammar check

• Web browsing

• Hyperstudio

• Web page design

• Upload/download

• Instant Messaging

• Web searching

• Statistical analysis presentation

• Online catalogs

• Multimedia production (PowerPoint)

• Database management systems

• Electronic indexes

• Chat

• Video production

• Inspiration

• Group discussion

• CAD/CAM

• Use of operating systems

• Copy/paste

• Graphics

• Brainstorming software

• Telnet

• ftp

• PDAs

• Algorithms

• HTML

• Programming

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Better, But Still Out of Context

• E-Mail
• Word processing
• Group discussion
• Online catalogs
• Electronic indexes
• Web browsing
• Web searching
• Electronic spreadsheets
• Upload/download
• HTML
• Spell/grammar check
• Brainstorming software
• PDAs
• Video production
• Algorithms
• Instant Messaging

• Multimedia production (PowerPoint, Hyperstudio)
• ftp
• Chat
• Graphics
• Database management
• Inspiration
• Use of operating systems
• Web page design
• Copy/paste
• Statistical analysis presentation
• CAD/CAM
• Telnet
• Programming

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Technology in Context! (p. 62)
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Technology Education

• Information technology fundamentally affects
  every aspect of educationbecause learning
  teaching are fundamentally information-based.

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Practice Technologyin a Big6 Context p. 58

• Baseline technology
• colored pencils

• Related Big6
• synthesis
• Related electronic technologies
• paint, draw, graphics, video and
  photo-editing

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Practice Technologyin a Big6 Context

• highlighting
• Related Big6
• use of information
• Related electronic technologies
• copy/paste, download, file transfer
  highlight

Baseline technology
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Exercise Technologyin a Big6 Context

• Baseline technology
• magazines and books
• Related Big6
• information seeking strategies,
• use of information
• Related electronic technologies
• full-text electronic resources, CD-ROMs, WWW
  sites, databases

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Exercise Technologyin a Big6 Context

• Baseline technology
• pen and paper
• Related Big6
• synthesis
• use of information
• Related electronic technologies
• word processing, desktop publishing,
  multimedia, presentation software, web page
  authoring

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Exercise Technologyin a Big6 Context

• Baseline technology
• face-to-face meeting
• Related Big6
• TILUSE
• Related electronic technologies
• e-mail, listservs , video conferencing,
  discussion boards, chat

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The Bottom Line
Use of the Big6
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Before Lunch Thought

• "There are two fundamental equalizers in life
• the Internet and education."
• -John Chambers, CEO, Cisco Systems, 1999

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LUNCH
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Curriculum - Big6 Integration
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Georgia Learning Connection

• http//www.glc.k12.ga.us/homepg.htm
• Is it used?
• Consider it from the information literacy or Big6
  perspective
• Build Big6 lesson plans for all

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Schoolwide Implementation

• Implementation Ideas
• What needs to happen?
• How do you want to do this?
• Where does it fit?

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Summary

• Information-rich and complex world.
• Information technology literacy essential
  skills for the information age.
• The Big6 powerful approach to information
  literacy can implement immediately.
• Technology gains meaning if learned and used in
  a Big6 context.
• Fully integrates with the classroom 111.

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Big6 Turbo Tools

• TurboTools guides students--from start to
  finish--through the Big6 process to create
  projects and complete assignments of all types,
  including research papers and book reports.

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Big6 Web Work

• Information Seeking Activity
• Search the Web Webquest
• Explore the Big6 Website
• Big6 Treasure Hunt
• Identify Big6 Correlated Web sites you can use
• Location and Access
• Share with Group
• Synthesis

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Big6 Workshop Evaluation

• Evaluation Time

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Implementation CONTEXT!!

• WARNING!
• Teaching information technology skills out of
  context is hazardous to your students health.

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Call to Action
Think Big(6)! This is really important!!!
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Rob Darrow Big6 Trainer Robdarrow_at_cusd.com
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