DIPTL P096Information Literacy

Lesson 5Information Literacy Models -

pedagogical practices and future literacy

Assignment 2

• Any questions?

Instructional aspects of a library program

Information Fluency Continuum by the NY Dept. of Education (http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/27A1E84E-65EB-4A54-80DF-51E28D34BF4F/0/InformationFluencyContinuum.pdf)

• A comprehensive continuum for info and digital literacies

Assessments

Information Fluency Continuum 2010 Priority Benchmark Skills and Assessments

(http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/2BD1C6F6-E583-41E8-9D8A-8578447FBF9A/0/IFCK12PriorityBenhmarkSkillsandAssessments.pdf

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The documents in this guide include:• Information Fluency Continuum • Information Fluency Continuum Benchmark Skills • Grade-by-Grade Information Fluency Benchmark Skills • K-12 Information Fluency Continuum Priority Benchmark Skills

Brochure • Information Fluency Continuum: Priority Benchmark Skills and

Assessments • REACTS Taxonomy

Future of Literacies?

• Social Networking• Increased possibilities for management,

consuming and creation of information• Mobile technologies growth

Mobile Phones

Source: https://digitalcommons.georgetown.edu/blogs/isdyahoofellow/category/bric/page/2/

Source: Gauravonomics from Flickr. Data from Wave 3 of the Power of the People Social Media Tracker by Universal McCann

Mobile Technologies – Not Just Mobile Phone…

Image Source: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/pda.htm

New technologies

• Traditionally, search engines are used (e.g., Google) but this is not sufficient for today

• New forms of discovering useful stuff: social bookmarking, folksonomy, Wikipedia, social repositories

• Keeping yourself in touch with information – RSS Feeds and casts (video and pod)

Some innovative strategies

o Google Tools:Google search tip for educators:http://www.utechtips.com/?p=1127

o Google classroom posters:http://www.google.com/educators/posters.html

o Google lesson plans: http://www.google.com/educators/activities.html

School Library Blogs

•http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links/index.php?title=School_libraries

•http://blog.schoollibrarymedia.com/

•http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334.html

Useful tools for integration of IL• Google applications in education (Doc, Map, Books, etc)

(http://www.freetech4teachers.com/p/google-tools-tutorials.html)

• Creating Blogs or Website (http://www.freetech4teachers.com/p/creating-effective-blogs-websites.html)

Useful tools that can be used in your blog:VokiVoiceThreadZooburst

Mixing resources

• Mixing and re-mixing existing resources and media to create new resources: e.g., in your blog, wiki, Youtube video, Slideshare presentation, Voicethread, or social networking sites such as Facebook

Information Seeking Strategies

• However there is much more than Google:o Wikipedia:

http://wikipedia.org/ o Wiki search engine: http://www.qwika.com/ o Resources for school libraries:

http://www.sldirectory.com/o Something else: http://www.quintura.com/,

http://www.eyeplorer.com/ o Delicious http://www.delicious.com o Search for mind maps: http://www.mindmapsearch.org/