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