power learning
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Power Learning. fno.org. Power Learning. Students as researchers, inventors and thinkers Analysis Inference Interpretation Synthesis. fno.org. A New Information Landscape. fno.org. A New Information Landscape. Faster access - distributed More information (California in Google ?) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Power Learning
Students as researchers, inventors and thinkers
• Analysis• Inference• Interpretation
• Synthesis
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A New Information Landscape
• Faster access - distributed
• More information (California in Google?)
• But organization? quality? Truth?
• Dramatic need for information skills
Which City? MallsArt Museums
Pizza Sports
ClimateCrime
Jobother
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NoiseWe suffer from Noise.
Noise brings us chaos . . . static . . . bedlam . . . cacophony.
Noise offers distraction, distortion and distress.
We would be much better off with music!
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The Age of Glib
• Mentalsoftness™• Cut and Paste Thinking• The New Plagiarism
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From Information Consumers to Information Producers
Learning to make up your own mind about the important questions and issues of life.
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Which City? MallsArt
Museums
Pizza Sports
ClimateCrime
Job other
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Teach Students
to approach reading strategically.
• Questioning• Picturing• Awakening Prior Knowledge• Inferring• SynthesizingMosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader’s Workshop (Keene &
Zimmerman, 1997)
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Engaged Learners
• Responsible for their own learning
• Energized by learning
• Strategic
• Collaborative fno.org
Students as Infotectives
• Skilled thinkers, researchers and inventors• Solving information puzzles and riddles• Employing analysis, synthesis and evaluation• Making sense from non-sense
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The Information Literate School
Students take voyages of discovery and exploration.They are not satisfied with cut and paste thinking.• Prospecting• Interpreting• Creating Good New Ideas
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The Need for Information Literacy
From data to information to insight– Visual Literacy– Numerical Literacy– Text Literacy– Others?
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REAL TIME RESEARCH
Authentic issues
• The search for sound solutions
• The search for wise decisions
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Examples of Research
Essential Question • Decisions
– Which of these three cities would you select for a new home?
– Which of these three bills does the best job of reducing crime?
• Problems– How do we restore the salmon
harvest?– What can we do to reduce the
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The Research Cycle
Essential
Question
Questioning
Planning
Sorting &
Sifting
Synthesizing
Evaluating
Gathering
Questioning
Planning
Sorting &
Sifting
Synthesizing
Evaluating
Gathering
Questioning
Planning
Sorting &
Sifting
Synthesizing
Evaluating
Gathering
Questioning
Planning
Sorting &
Sifting
Synthesizing
Evaluating
Gathering
Reporting -
Persuading
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Inferential Reasoning is Paramount
• Finding meaning• Creating meaning• Extending meaning• Reading between the lines
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The Results
Students who can • make up their own minds• work well in teams• solve problems with independence and
ingenuity• speak, present and write persuasively
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