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Information Literacy for Teachers
Debbie Meadows
Bonita DeAmicis
BTSA/Induction 16.2
What is Information Literacy?
“the ability to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate and use effectively the needed information” (ALA, 1989)
available:
http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ACRL/Publications/White_Papers_and_Reports/Presidential_Committee_on_Information_Literacy.htm
Selecting Sources
• Print Materials– Books
– Magazines
– Journals
– Encyclopedias
– Newspapers
• Technology Materials– CD-Roms/DVD-Roms
– Websites
– Electronic Databases
– Search Engines
– Online Encyclopedias
– E-books
Search Strategies
• Boolean Logic
• Site Navigation
• Search Engines– Use Advance Search
Page
• Questions
Boolean Logic
Apple AND Orange
Apple NOT Orange
Apple OR Orange
Site Navigation
• Quick way to navigate a large site
• Key Words or Sections
Search Engine
• Google http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
• Advanced Search
Additional Technology
• Electronic Encyclopedia– http://encarta.msn.com/
– http://www.encyclopedia.com/
• Primary Sources– http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/RUSA/
• Ask an Expert– http://k12science.ati.stevens-tech.edu/askanexpert.html
Evaluating Sources
• Web Addresses– Parts of a Web Address– Internet Groups
• Website Evaluations– Five W’s
• Who, What, When, Where, Why
• Citation of Sources– Giving Credit where Credit is due
The Five “Ws”
• Who wrote the page?
• What is the purpose of the page ?
• When was the site created and updated?
• Where does the information come from?
• Why do I need this information?
Kathy Schrock from Planting the Seeds of Change http://www.kathyschrock.net/slideshows/planting_show.pdf
Alan November
• http://www.lib.umd.edu/UES/webcheck.html website evaluation tool
• http://www.anovember.com/articles/zack.html article for reflection
• Sites for Evaluation– http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/– http://www.martinlutherking.org/
Why: Helpful
• Questioning and refining of student’s search strategies
• Good Questions are the basis for finding information
• Debbie Abilock's Best Tool for the Job http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
Big 6: http://www.big6.com/
Fun to Checkout (teacher only)
• http://www.malepregnancy.com/• http://www.d-b.net/dti/• http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html • http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html• http://lme.mnsu.edu/mankato/mankato.html• www.martinlutherking.org• http://www.umich.edu/~engtt516/index2.html• http://www.molossia.org/countryeng.html
Additional Resources
• http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/hoax/index.htm
• http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html
• http://kathyschrock.net/slideshows.htm
Bibliography
• http://kathyschrock.net/support.htm
• http://www.anovember.com/infolit/index.html
• http://www.anovember.com/articles/zack.html
• http://www.infolit.org/
• http://www.education-world.com/a_sites/sites081.shtml
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