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Woodfarm High School Library 2013

Research Skills for LifeA practical introduction

23rd April 2014St. Joseph’s Primary

Alison Mundie / Donna Baird


Why are we re-iterating Literacy for all?

• Consistency / Easy Transitions

• Primary – Framework homework/ Research

• Cutting down work load

• Improving literacy skills across the board

• Greater need with National 4 and National 5


WHY?

• “Information literacy is knowing when and why you need information, where to find it, and how to evaluate, use and communicate it in an ethical manner.” (CILIP Information Literacy:the skills updated 15/09/2008)


The draft framework “A National Information Literacy Framework Scotland : Skills for everyone” by Christine Irving and John Crawford(www.caledonian.ac.uk/ils/framework.html) suggests that by the end of P7 pupils should have the skills necessary to plan, locate, organise, represent and evaluate information.

http://www.caledonian.ac.uk/ils/framework.html


Time Management

Summarising/ Paraphrasing

Note Making

Skimming/scanning

Confidence/ being able to work in a group

Ability to search on web

ICT skills

Ability to work in a group/team

Effective communication

skills

Presentation of findings

Ability to summarise Information

found

Ability to extract key information

from sources

Fact finding

Skills


5 simple steps for effective research

Ex- PlanLocateOrganiseRepresentEvaluate


Plan

Define the task. Brainstorm what is already known, its relevance

and other areas of the topic to be considered (KWL chart).

Draw up a list of questions to answer - to get the right information you must ask the right question.

Create a mind map if helpful. Make a note of keywords to use when

searching.


Step 1 Plan - what information do you need?

What is your subject? What do you want to find out about? Ask some questions.

What other words or phrases can you think of to describe this subject?

Brainstorm - Make a list or draw a mind map

Discover the most important words – these will be your keywords. Highlight them.

Use your keywords to form a search strategy

What do you know about this subject already?


KWL ChartName………………………… Date…………………………………

Research topic……………………………………………………………………………………

What I know What I want to know

What I have learned


Locate

• Identify appropriate resources • Use keywords and questions • Refine, narrow or broaden these terms as

necessary.• Check each source for authority, currency,

accuracy and bias. ( ACAB poster).• Note all sources used – Harvard Referencing


Step 2 - Locate -identify helpful resources

Make a list of any resources which might help you to find information about your subject

Here are some to get you started: Books

Newspapers

TV

Radio

Videos

Maps

The Internet

Spreadsheets


acab


Authority Who is the author/responsible for creating the website? What are

their qualifications and associations? Are they:

• .org • .co/com• .ac • .gov• Search their name using a search engine – see what else they have

written/created.• Search the links in their web page –Can you contact them? (e.g. by

e-mail).• Check any references/bibliographies included in the website.• Cross check their facts with other sources.


Currency

• Check how up-to-date the website is by looking at the date it was created or updated. This is usually at the bottom of the page or click on FILE then PROPERTIES.

• Are the links on the site still active and how up-to-date are they?


Accuracy

• Cross check any facts

• Spulling and grimmer mostikes

• You have to decide if the website is suitable to your needs:- age, contents etc


Bias

• To advertise a product or service

• To change how you think


For the last few years, anyone doing a Google search for "Hitler" gets, as one of the first results, the "Hitler Historical Museum." This claims to be an unbiased site devoted to historical truth.


It is instead a neo-Nazi site.

It is anonymous (the registered owner is "united. thought").

Its mailing address is a shopping mall in Herndon, VA.

Many of its links are to other neo-Nazi sites, and its information is not entirely reliable. This site is also cited by other more reputable sites as being of historical

use by someone probably as lazy as a Fourth year last thing on a Sunday night!


How to help?

• Whois.com

• Domaintools.net

http://whois.net/

http://www.domaintools.com/


Real or not Real?

• www.dhmo.org

• http://www.petroldirect.com/

• www.sulabhtoiletmuseum.org/

http://www.dhmo.org/

http://www.petroldirect.com/



http://www.sulabhtoiletmuseum.org/


Organise

• Treasure or Trash.

• Arrange the information in a logical order.

• Go back to the original task

• Beware of plagiarism

• Add an introduction and conclusion to the topic as appropriate.


Step 3 Organise relevant

information

Examine all the information you have gathered

The information which answers your questions is relevant. Keep this.

Look again at your questions

Discard everything that is not relevant

Sort the relevant information to answer your questions


Represent

• Required format- legible, logical, understandable, and answers the original task.

• Ensure that the way the work is presented is appropriate to the audience.

• Bibliography

• Check through and redraft as necessary.

• Hand in/present the completed work.


Step 4 Represent relevant

information

After you have kept only what is relevant - Present your information

To do this you might:

Write a report or an essay

Give a talk

Make a slide show

Write a song


Evaluate

• Recall the steps you took

to complete this task.

• Assess the process.

• What worked well?

• What could be improved next time?

• Fill in the last column of KWL chart.


Step 5

Evaluate what you have done

•Think about how you found information

•Are there things you would definitely do next time?

•Are there things you would never do again?

•What could you do next time to make your enquiry even better?

Ask Yourself:


Over to you!

• Scenario

• Task 1: Plan (First 2 columns KWL Chart)

• Task 2: Locate (Computers)

• Task 3: Organise

• Task 4: Represent

• Task 5: Evaluate (Last column KWL Chart)


Tasks will be timedhttp://www.online-stopwatch.com/full-screen-stopwatch/

http://www.online-stopwatch.com/


Thank you for listening

• CPD Evaluation

• E-mail: [email protected] and/or [email protected]

• Phone: 0141-5772010 (St.Ninian’s)

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