Blending NonFiction Projects with Information Literacy

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Blending Non-Fiction Projects with Information
Literacy

• Janet Melcher
• Karen Cedrone
• Maggie Caverly
• Roberts Elementary School
• Upper Merion Area School District

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Donald Leu and Why we should Teach Information
Literacy

• To be newly literate means to take advantage of
  the information resources that are on the
  Internet, and that requires new reading and
  writing skills. These new literacies are central
  to our students' futures. Their futures are going
  to be defined by their ability to read, write,
  and communicate within networked information
  environments."
• Donald Leu John and Maria Neag Endowed Chair in
  Literacy and TechnologyUniversity of Connecticut

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What do students need to learn about the Internet?

• Instead of wading through hundreds of potential
  hits, students need to learn
• how to focus their searching strategies and focus
  on relevant information
• how to recognize reliable resources and those
  that are not reliable
• what plagiarism is and how to avoid doing it
• how to paraphrase a selection
• how to give credit to their resources.

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What we will do in this presentation

• Present two different kinds of non-fiction
  research projects for 4th grade students
• Blend in lessons about information literacy with
  both research projects

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Internet 2.0 applications web-based email
Wikis online banking project management tools
word processing spreadsheeting news feeds
online radio video hosting geomatics and
mapping services car anti-theft tracking and gps
home security surveillance dating and
relationships services psychology and medical
counselling headhunting and executive job
searching sports team organizing photo gallery
services music and file sharing computer virus
scanning computer hardware testing private
investigator and confidential search services
wedding planning consignment and flea market
trading (e.g. eBay) price shopping for consumer
goods digital photo processing logo design and
graphic arts services
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Internet 2.0

• Information literacy changes with Internet 2.0
  because of the interactive nature of Wikis,
  blogs, etc.
• You need to impress on students how easy it is to
  change and contribute to a webpage.

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What is a Wiki?

• A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages
  designed to enable anyone (excluding blocked or
  banned users) who accesses it to contribute or
  modify content, using a simplified markup
  language. Wikis are often used to create
  collaborative websites and to power community
  websites. The collaborative encyclopedia
  Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis .

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Great Lesson on Wikis

• Show Common Craft video
• Go into Wikipedia and change an entry
• in a nondestructive way.
• Suggestioninsert a literary character into
  another book plot.
• (Harry Potter into Diary of a Wimpy Kid)
• Makes the point about believing what you read on
  an interactive website.

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4th Grade Persuasive Essay

• Create a persuasive essay
• Post it on Wikispaces
• Comment on classmates essay

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Wiki for Reading Tournament/Reading Olympics

• Post book reports, questions for competition

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