ONLINE RESEARCH MODELS

& SLAM DUNKS

2015 S.T.A.T. Summer Institutes

BCPS

Presented by:• Chimere Neal, Resource Teacher – Library Media• Kelly Ray, Resource Teacher – Library Media Office of Digital Learning

Outcome & Indicators

Outcome: Participants will learn about the structure, inquiry process, and resources in BCPS Online Research Models and Slam Dunk lessons in order to prepare for Students and Teachers Accessing Tomorrow.

Indicator: Participants will be able to implement BCPS Online Research Models and Slam Dunk lessons in order to facilitate student research and inquiry-based learning in the content areas.

Overview

Get familiar with BCPS Online Research Models and Slam Dunk lessons for facilitating student research in the content areas by: Foundations and evolution of Online Research

Models and Slam Dunk lessons. Standards alignment. Structure, inquiry process steps, and resources. Integration of information literacy skills

instruction. Strategies for implementing/facilitating with

students.

Issues with K-12 Student Research

Do K-12 research experiences prepare students for college and careers?

Issues with K-12 ResearchResearch Shift?

Issues with K-12 Student Research“Too many of the learning activities in school

libraries are low-level cut and paste activities, such as transferring facts from library resources on to worksheets or just cutting information off the Internet to pass in for a report. Little learning results and plagiarism dominates. Such activities are termed "bird units" after the ubiquitous 4th grade bird reports, but they can be on any topic: explorers, state reports, old famous dead men, or other common K–12 topics and across all disciplines…

Ban Those Bird Units: An Action Research Project Dr. David Loertcher

Issues with K-12 Student Research

“Many teachers, feeling pressured to have their students achieve, have stopped all interaction with library research reports, because they understand that the time invested in these reports will not produce any positive results. Library media specialists are reluctant to have such activities continue because the potential of the library media center and its resources are being ignored.”

Ban Those Bird Units: An Action Research Project Dr. David Loertcher

Issues with K-12 Student Research

Connect to your own teaching experience: 

What are some issues that have made research challenging for you & your

students?

Share your thoughts (in 160 characters or less) on this Padlet Wall:

padlet.com/bcpsodl/research

Learning Standards for Student Research

National Information Literacy standards for students: Information Power (ALA, 1998)  Nine Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning to “help students become skillful producers and consumers of information."

Learning Standards for Student Research

Shift in school library practice from teaching "library skills" in isolation, to integrating the teaching and learning of information literacy skills with content learning/curriculum. 

Nevertheless, research still often treated in content curricula as optional, enrichment, or assigned as an "outside project" without information literacy.

Learning Standards for Student Research

Information Literacy standards revised (AASL, 2007)

Standards for the 21st Century Learner 

Information literacy Technology literacy Digital literacy Cultural literacy Digital citizenship

Learning Standards for Student Research

Common Core State Standards: "Research—both short, focused projects (such as

those commonly required in the workplace) and longer term in depth research—is emphasized throughout the standards, but most prominently in the writing strand since a written analysis and presentation of findings is so often critical."  -- “Key Points in English Language Arts“, Common Core State Standards Initiative

Standards for Research to Build and Present Knowledge at all grade levels

AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner-CCSS Crosswalk

Learning Standards for Student Research

ISTE - Educational Technology Standards for Students

P21 Framework (Partnership for 21st Century Skills) - Adopted by BCPS in 2013  

Content learning standards for most subjects now include standards for student research, inquiry, or investigation. 

ORMs & Slam Dunks Aligned to All

Online Research Models for In-Depth Research: Backgound

Development of our Online Research Models and Research Guides has been informed by our study of information literacy process models and research-based pedagogy, and by working directly with experts. Dr. Jamie McKenzie's 

Online Research Module inspired our initial ORM structure and use of higher-level Essential Questions requiring critical thinking, analysis and synthesis of information from multiple sources.

We made some modifications to McKenzie’s ILPM and so called ours Online Research Models.

Scenario, Task & Product, Assessment, Question, Gather, Organize, Conclude

Online Research Models for In-Depth Research

Dr. Carolyn Kulthau's Information Search Process (1985), Guided Inquiry (2007) and Guided Inquiry Design (2012) have inspired our inquiry-based process and revised structure.

Online Research Models for In-Depth Research

Guided Inquiry Design: Concept of “Third Space”

Online Research Models for In-Depth Research

1998: We began annual Summer Curriculum Workshops for designing ORMs integrated with content curricula.

2015: Online Research Models & Slam Dunk Lessons for Integrating the CCSS Research Strand - Curriculum writing team of experienced library media specialists & Towson University School Library Media Cohort students. We collaborate with content area curriculum writers to

design ORMs/Slam Dunk lessons for specific content units.

The ORMs are now referenced in content curriculum guides as a primary means of addressing unit objectives.

Online Research Models for In-Depth Research

Evolution of BCPS Online Research Models: Three page structure:  Home page, Teacher

Resource page, Student Resource page Seven process steps: Scenario, Task &

Product, Assessments, Questions, Gather & Sort, Organize, Conclusion 2000 Example: Native American Music (MS Music)    2010 Example: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

: Judging the Authenticity of Historical Fiction (MS ELA) Only minor design changes during first decade of

21st century. 

Online Research Models for In-Depth Research

2011: Tabbed navigation was added to reduce vertical scrolling. Example: Paul Revere's Midnight Ride (ES ELA/SS)

2012: Guided Inquiry Design elements merged with existing structure. Consideration of "Third Space" - the intersection

between curricular content and students' own lives and real world.

Example: Geometry Playground (ES Math) 

2013-present:  ORMs designed with eight Guided Inquiry Design steps as structure. Example: Epidemic Experts (MS ELA) 

Slam Dunk Lessons for Brief, Focused Research

What are the characteristics of a slam dunk basketball shot? (Adjectives/descriptive phrases)

Dr. Jamie McKenzie's Model  The Slam Dunk Digital Lesson  Five Kinds of Slam Dunk Digital Lessons  "Nothing but Net" –Creating

Slam-dunk Lesson Plans  From Now On/fno.org

Our newer Slam Dunks reflect elements of Guided Inquiry Design & attention to "third space." 

Slam Dunk Lesson Background

http://fno.org/sept02/slamdunk.html

BCPS Research Guides

• Created during 2014 Curriculum Workshop

• Resources for students to use independently at point of need to develop information literacy skills

• Resources for teachers/library media specialists to use at identified “zones of intervention”

BCPS Research Guide: Grades 5-8

Accessing ORMs & Slam Dunks in BCPSOne

ORMs & Slam Dunks should be referenced in content curricula & BCPSOne Lesson Plans. EXCEPTION: Digital Citizenship Slam

Dunk lessons for Grades 6-8 Teachers can also place hyperlinks to

ORMs & Slam Dunks onto Lesson Tiles.

Accessing ORMs & Slam Dunks in BCPSOne

Accessing ORMs & Slam Dunks on bcps.org

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Accessing ORMs & Slam Dunks on bcps.org

Digital Notes sheet available on the ORM/Slam Dunk

Workshop page on ODL Resource Wiki: tinyurl.com/bcpsorm