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Information Literacy
Education
is knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing
how to use the information you get.
--William Feather
Information's
pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
--Clarence Day
One
may receive the information but miss the teaching.
--Jean Toomer
We
are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
--John Naisbitt
| Designed primarily as a tool for a university course at Indiana University at Indianapolis, this website is available to anyone who wants to learn more about information inquiry, teaching, and library media programs by Danny Callison and Annette Lamb. Provides powerful "snapshots" by grade level, a learning lab and more. | |
| Interactive way to learn about information literacy using a topic of your choice. | |
| News, information, tools, standards, strategies for information literacy in grades K-16. Be sure to see the tools, wizards, digital fluency kit, and tutorials as well as other resources and links. | |
| This article from Jamie McKenzie answers the question: How does a school know when it deserves to be called an information literate school community? | |
| Lesson plans from Pacific Bell Knowledge Network and UCLA are listed by topic and grade level and promote the process and essential skills for embedding information literacy strategies across all areas of the curriculum. Information Literacy Standards referenced in each student lesson Lesson plans are also available for media literacy, visual literacy, and multicultural literacy. | |
| Compiled by library media specialist Joyce Valenza, a comprehensive list of forms and activities in the areas of information seeking, evaluation, ethics, synthesis, overviews, rubrics, content area activities, standards and communication. | |
| A 16 module, self-paced course for teachers.This eight hour staff development course emphasizes student investigations as vehicles to explore the information available over the Internet. The course engages participants in learning the Research Cycle, several types of literacy, Gardner's Seven Intelligences and much more. | |
| Concept mapping can help develop information literacy. These lesson plans and templates for teachers by teachers are excellent examples using the software program Inspiration. See the company website for more resources. | |
| A SUNLINK Announcement about research supporting graphic organizers with links to some free alternatives to Inspiration including some that also support reading from the Florida Online Reading Professional Development Project (FOR-PD). | |
| A dynamic web-based multimedia resource for educators, that promises to make a significant contribution to enhancing the teaching of information literacy skills to children. At no time in history has the ability to locate, organize, evaluate, manage and use information been more critical for today's learners. These skills, collectively referred to as information literacy, lay the groundwork for success in every phase of a student's life both in and out of school. Funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Subscribe to the Educator's Spotlight Digest, a free online magazine for promoting information literacy. | |
| Teaching information access skills cannot be done in a vacuum. It must relate to the learning environment by actively engaging students to gather and process information in a meaningful way. The Big6 and WebQuest are two frameworks you can use in research. In addition, students need to know whether or not the information is reliable, how to cite resources, and understand copyright. The guides and activities are designed to help teachers and students examine Websites and their content. | |
| Resources for information literacy. It's a real wiki, so you can edit or add information. One goal is to come up with a matrix of skills for K-12. | |
| Information
Literacy Models |
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| The Florida research process model: Focus, Investigate, Note, Develop, Score. Be sure to see the Curious Cat and Diggity Dog Research Organizers to help students navigate the FINDS process available from the SUNLINK eStore or print your own. | |
| One of the most popular models for information literacy. Lesson plans, links, research, newsletter and more. | |
| Focus, Links, Input and Payoff! A four step research model with sample worksheets, sample projects, and alignment to Information Literacy standards. | |
| Jamie McKenzie's information skills model with a heavy emphasis on questioning. | |
| Walks students through 4 steps of research with links, helpful hints and organizers along the way. Created by a teacher for her students. | |
| 24 steps to a research project with links and tip sheets. Based on the Big6. | |
| Don't hit the panic button. This page is here to help. From "getting started" to "evaluating your work." | |
| Scroll to the bottom of the page to see a variety of tools for students to use in organizing their research and communicating progress and what they have learned to the teacher. | |
| Searching
for Information |
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| Florida's own K-12 catalog of everything in over 2,000 school library media centers. Search your own school first, then your district, region, or the entire state to find what you want. Find book cover images and over 15,000 educational websites tied to the Sunshine State Standards. Search by reading level, interest level, Lexile, Accelerated Reader, or Reading Counts information too. You and your students can also create and print a bibliography. | |
| Learn to search like a pro. FindSpot is a collection of the best search tools on the Internet combined with the help and tips you need to use them successfully. Includes search engines, search directories and meta search tools. Syntax assistance right on the search screen for each tool. | |
| Helps you select the best search tool for your needs. NoodleQuest is an interactive form that will help you select the best tool. NoodleBib Express will help you create citations for information from any format in MLA or APA style. These tools are free, other enhancements by subscription. | |
| A quick lesson on search tools with links to many different search engines, directories and related resources. | |
| Evaluating
Information |
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| An interactive tutorial and practice to help students evaluate non-fiction resources. | |
| Questions to ask when looking at Internet resources. Links to articles, ideas, activities and resources. | |
| A guide to critical thinking about what you see on the Web. Six suggestions for evaluating web pages. Guides student through several websites for each suggestion. | |
| Links to resources to help students (and teachers) become more critical Web users. | |
| Eight things to consider in looking at websites. Includes a quiz. Good for younger students. | |
| A is for authority; B is for bias; C is for citations and so on. Kathy Schrock offers these criteria and resources. See Kathy's complete guide to website evaluation resources including PDF checksheets for elementary, middle, secondary and even a Spanish language version. Lots of links to her own materials as well as other expert sources. Be sure to scroll down to see her suggested list of sites to use in teaching critical evaluation such as my favorite, The Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie. | |
| Collecting,
Organizing, Analyzing and Using Information |
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| Using primary source materials such as letters, diaries, photographs, maps and artifacts provide students with authentic materials from the past. By looking closely for details, students can draw conclusions about the items and formulate their own hypotheses about the time period(s) during which they were created. Further research, using secondary sources, will either confirm or challenge their ideas. | |
| The Digital Index Card is a web-based tool for collecting and evaluating Net information. It consists of six forms that ask questions of the researcher, all designed to collect content and to help the research make decisions about the appropriateness of the information. | |
| A tool to assist in project-based learning, students use NoteStar to create topics and sub-topics for research, delegate parts of the research to group members, take notes, organize and print notes, and track information sources, and create a bibliography (APA or MLA). Teachers create and assign projects for students and can monitor their progress. | |
| A research organizer for research reports and projects designed with grades 3-8 in mind. Helps students learn how to refine a subject so that it is more manageable for Internet research. | |
| Links to lots of graphic organizers and ways to use them. | |
| Students practice taking important parts of sentences and dragging them to their notebooks. Helps with notetaking and summarizing. | |
| Legal
and Ethical Uses of Information |
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| Plagiarism | |
| Simple explanation from the University of Toronto's Code of Behavior. | |
| From Purdue University's OWL: What is plagiarism and how can it be avoided? | |
| What's the difference between summarizing, paraphrasing and quoting? How do you know which to do? How do you credit the source of information in each case? | |
| Copyright | |
| Point on a student to see a question about copyright, then click to see the answer. Requires Flash player. | |
| An interactive website aimed at kids to help them understand and learn more about copyright. | |
| Quizzes (and answers), posters, presentations and handouts about copyright from Hall Davidson. Also see the online copyright quiz. | |
| An easy to read overview of copyright issues from the Copyright Management Center. Links to fair-use issues, and permissions information. | |
Citing
Sources |
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| One of the most important lessons that we can teach our students about Net-based information is the concept that information is property. A form to help you generate a request to use Internet information. | |
| MLA format for print and electronic sources. | |
| Free citation generator for print and non-print resources. MLA and APA. | |
| Create citations with or without annotations online using specially designed forms. Store your bibliography online and retrieve when you need it. Basic service and MLA format are free; other enhancements by subscription. | |
| Producing
Research Reports |
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Written, oral, visual and service ideas for showing understanding of a researched topic. Includes rubrics for many. Secondary ideas are grouped by learning style. |
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Florida SUNLINK Project • University of Central Florida
Last updated August 2006