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The Big6Moving Every Child Ahead

Ferdi Serim [email protected] Wolinsky [email protected]

http://oii.org/cil2003

Information & Technology Skills for Student Success

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A Blue Print for Change

• Establish a vision

• Determine the Reality

• Do a gap analysis

• Set measurable goals

• Establish a plan

• Implement and evaluate recursively

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My Vison

The 5th Wave by Ron Tennant ©

Material omitted for copyright purposes

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Reality and the 20% Rule


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The Reality of Accommodation vs Assimilation

Don Tapscott - Growing Up Digital

Used with Permission © King Features Syndicate

The Net Generation is a different animal.


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Teachers must change from the sage on the stage to the

guide on the side.

MYTH

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Three Great Teachers

Plato Socrates Hippocrates

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Those who can, do.

Those who can’t teach.

Why do we put up with it?

Omitted – What do you make from Taylormali.com

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MYTH

Teacher Resistance to Change

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Teachers are as resistant to change as a hog-tied cow is

resistant to standing up!

Art Wolinsky 2002

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If I offered you $1000…

• …to read all the scientific information printed yesterday.

• …to read all the pages added to the web in the past hour.

• …to visit all the hits in a Google search for “blue whales”. (30 sec/hit)

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If I offered you $1000…

• …to read all the scientific information printed yesterday.

– Seven full sets of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

• …to read all the web pages added to the web in the past hour.

– 300,000 Pages (5,000 a minute!)

• …to skim all the hits of a Google search for “blue whales”. (30 sec/hit)

– 16,100 hits = 16.8 8-hr. days.

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Walk a mile in his shoes…

Let’s play, What’s My Process?


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The Big6 Workshop Handbook

• Purpose

• Contents

• Use and permissions

Linworth: [email protected]

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Numbers, Numbers, Numbers

• Big6 Workbook – Page 5

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The Big6 Workshop

• Introduction – Setting the Scene

• The Big6™

• Technology & the Big6

• Putting it all together

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1. Task Definition1. Task Definition

2. Info Seeking Strategies2. Info Seeking Strategies

3. Location & Access3. Location & Access

4. Use of Information4. Use of Information

5. Synthesis5. Synthesis

6. Evaluation6. Evaluation

Information & Technology LiteracyThe Big6™ Skills

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The Super3

Beginning - Plan

Middle - Do

End - Review

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Amanda’s Assignment

• Endangered Animal Unit

• Research an animal

• Make Presentation

• Convince others to adopt your animal

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Task Definition

1.1 Define the problem

1.2 Identify the information requirements

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Information Seeking Strategies

2.1 Brainstorm all possible sources

2.2 Select the best sources

Technology in context…

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Brainstorm

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Narrow

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Location & Access

3.1 Locate sources

3.2 Find information within sources


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Search Skills

• Know Your Tools

–Search Engines

–Directories

–Metasearch Engines

• Search Engine Math

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Search Skills

• Internet Scavenger Hunt

–How many can you find?

–How long would it take

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Use of Information

4.1 Engage (read, hear, view)

4.2 Extract relevant information


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WARNING! Teaching information & technology

skills out of context is hazardous to your students’ health.

Implementation: CONTEXT!!

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See Big6 Workshop Handbookp. 47 – 50

Internet Power Research Using the Big6 Method

Enslow Publishers

Technology in a Big6 Context

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Task Definition•Get a head shot for NECC program

•Determine where I would get it

Information Seeking Strategies•Mentally list sources

•Narrow to digital photo

The Big6 and the Big Picture

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Locate and Access•Have Jill take digital picture

•Download to the computer

Use Information•View thumbnails

•Narrow down to one picture


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Synthesis•Still needs work on background

•Get help from graphic artist (My daughter, Randye)

• She edits and in her words, “captures my essence”

Not quite ready for presentation.

One more time please, Randye...

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