Qpat 2007

Information Literacy Survival Skills and You

QPAT 2007

QPAT 2007 Presentation

Part 1 – Anne Wade: Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance What is Information Literacy

Part 2 – Maureen Baron English Montreal School Board Information Literacy in your classroom

Part 3 – Sharon Peters LEARN Quebec Information Literacy and Web 2.0

Information Literacy

Anne WadeManager and Information Specialist

Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance, Concordia University

[email protected]

The Problem

Information in the early 21st century is characterized by: overabundance, unequal distribution, a strong tendency to triviality, and increasing concerns about credibility.

From: Sayers, R. (2006). Principles of awareness raising for information literacy. Bangkok: UNESCO. Retrieved on Nov. 17, 2006 from http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=23312&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Information Literacy Defined

The set of abilities requiring individuals to "recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.” (American Library Association)

From: Philip Randolph Memorial Library. (2002, Sept. 30). Glossary. Retrieved on November 2, 2004 from http://lib1.bmcc.cuny.edu/lib/help/glossary.html

SCONUL Seven Pillars Model for Info Literacy

From: Sayers, R. (2006). Principles of awareness raising for information literacy. Bangkok: UNESCO. Retrieved on Nov. 17, 2006 from http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=23312&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Library Professionals in our Schools

Coish, D. (2005, May). Canadian School Libraries and Teacher-Librarians: Results from the 2003/04: Information and Communications Technologies in Schools Survey. (Catalogue no. 81-595-MIE — No. 028). Ottawa: Culture, Tourism and the Centre for Education Statistics Division.

ISIS-21

Information Literacy Skills for the Information Society in the 21st Century

Partnership between the CSLP, EMSB and LEARN.

Research and development project Web-based, software for cycle 3-> Designed to teach and support IL skills: Students,

teachers, parents and librarians Will address a number of CCC within the QEP Linked to ePEARL

Inukshuk funding --> Prototypes for cycle 3

Kentucky Virtual Library (2004). Tutorial. Retrieved Sept. 28, 2007 from: http://www.kyvl.org/html/kids/homebase.html

Search Tools on the Web

Three types of search tools:DirectoriesSearch

EnginesMeta-search

Engines

Tools: Directories

Compiled by humans Database of selected resources

classified by subject Protected environment

Table of Contents approach to the web

Examples: Yahoo Open Directory Project Librarian’s Internet Index Answers.com

Tools: Directories cont’d

Searching the Yahoo Directory Browsing through the categories Red sun glasses signifies good site See - http://dir.yahoo.com/ French directory -

http://cf.search.yahoo.com/dir?ei=UTF-8&p= Answers.com -

http://www.answers.com/main/what_content.jsp

Google directory - http://www.google.ca/dirhp?hl=en French -http://www.google.ca/dirhp?hl=fr

Canada Seek -http://www.canadaseek.com/

Tools: Directories for Kids

AskJeeves for Kids - http://www.askforkids.com/ Awesome Library - http://www.awesomelibrary.org/ Enchanted Learning (includes English-French dictionary) -

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html FirstGov (US Info) - http://www.kids.gov/ Librarians’ Internet Index: http://lii.org/ KidsClick:http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/ Kids Space -http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/ World Almanac (Canada) -

http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/nations/canada.html

Yahoo for Kids - http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/

Tools: Directories for Kids

See also: ALA-RUSA Best Free Reference Web Sites http://www.google.com/coop/cse?

cx=012681041057676717069%3Alxoys7hon_y

For a list of directories see: http://dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/Directories/

Tools: Search Engines

Fully-automated

Keyword approach to the web

Three components: Spider, Index/Database, Search software Ranking of results

Examples: Google Yahoo Live search Altavista etc.

Tools: Google

See - http://www.google.com/ Types of searches: Websites, Images, News,

Blogs, Scholar, Books, Videos (4.8 million videos) etc.

Features: Spell checker, Dictionary, Calculator, Converter

Advanced search: Boolean logic and limiting commands: Languages, file format, date

French ver. -http://www.google.ca/webhp?hl=fr&ned=ca&tab=nw&q=

Translation tools: http://www.google.ca/language_tools

Effective Search Strategies

Search strategy Precision (e.g. Be specific!) Use multiple terms to describe concepts

Use Advanced search screens Boolean logic Limiting options

Use of Help screens Understand how the tool is processing your

query

Custom Search Engines

Mrs Gray's Research Site for Kids A Chicago-based computer science teacher’s

Custom Search Engine limited to sites for her middle school students

Expanding Your Horizons Helps nurture girls' interest in science,

technology, engineering, and math (STEM)

See: http://google.com/coop/cse/examples/Educators

Tools: Meta-Search Engines

Search multiple databases in one query

Results displayed in one listing

Save time because only one search is performed

Examples: Clusty - http://clusty.com/ Dogpile - http://www.dogpile.com/ PureVideo - http://www.purevideo.com/

The Strategy in a Nutshell

1. Use reference-type information (found through Directories) to gain background info on a topic.

2. Perform a keyword search on an Engine to gather more in-depth info:

Determine the key concepts with your topic Plan a search strategy and conduct your search Scan the URL and watch the top level domain name. Locate sites with current, objective, accurate

information Try to use sites that have an author and a date

3. Integrate the information found into your project.

If Still in Doubt…..

…..Check out Noodle Tools See: http://www.noodletools

.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html

Evaluating the Information

5 Ws:Who is the source of the info?What are you getting?When was the site (or doc) created?Where is the site from? Why are you here?

Source: Media Awareness Network (2004). Knowing what’s what and what’s not. Retrieved on November 5, 2006 from http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/handouts/internet/5ws_cyberspace.cfm

Top-level Domain Names

aero (2001) - Air transport industry com (1995) and biz (2001) - Commercial business coop (2001) - Cooperatives edu (1995) - US educational institutions gov (1995) - US government agencies or Cdn prov. agencies gc - Cdn federal depts. info (2001) - Information int (1998) - Orgs. est. by international treaties between governments mil (1995) - Military mobi (2006) - Mobile devices museum (2001) - Museums net (1995) - Network organizations org (1995) - Organizations (nonprofit) ca - Canada uk - United Kingdom

Compare…..

….these websites on the U.S. White House:

http://www.whitehouse.org/

http://www.whitehouse.net/

http://www.whitehouse.gov/

Fact vs Fiction

Some hoax sites for kids…. Burmese mountain dogs:

http://burmesemountaindog.info Dog Island: http://www.thedogisland.com/ Federal Vampire & Zombie Agency:http://www.

fvza.org/index.html

For a complete list of hoax sites - see: http://dmoz.org/Reference/Education/Instructional_Technology/Evaluation/Web_Site_Evaluation/Hoax_Sites/

Using the Information

Quoting: Exact copy or original, must use quotation marks. Must reference page/paragraph number

The better method is to:

Paraphrase: Reinstate in your own words the original ideas; no quotes necessary Facts or ideas are properly integrated and flow with the

writing style of the researcher

In either case you must acknowledge the source.

Defining Plagiarism

Retrieved Aug. 20, 2006 from the University of Hawaii Kapi'olani Community College Library website at: http://library.kcc.hawaii.edu/main/instruction_info/plagiarism1.html

Plagiarism is using someone else’s words or ideas without acknowledging the source.

Preventing plagiarism

When using information (this includes text, images, photographs, music, video clips and computer software) from the web one must acknowledge the source!

See: Copyright Matters! Prepared by Council of Ministers of Education. Available: http://www.cmec.ca/copyright/matters/indexe.stm“Students are required to cite materials used regardless of source, as a matter of appropriate use of works created by others. The education amendment [to Bill C-60] is nonetheless necessary to permit students to legally reproduce Internet materials in assignments, projects, and presentations and to forward these to their teachers, other students, and parents. Such educational activities are currently a violation of the Copyright Act.”

Acknowledging the Source

Use of a punctuation style Chicago Manual, Turabian, APA, MLA

Author. Date. Title. Date accessed. URL.

Sometimes the author is an organization Include date of site, date the site was revised

AND the date you visited the site

e.g. National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA). (2006, Mar. 22). Mars: Extreme planet. Retrieved on October 16, 2006 from: http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/facts/

Some Useful Sites: Students

Answers.com: http://www.answers.com/main/what_content.jsp

Internet Tools: http://www.itools.com/ Media Awareness Network:

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/special_initiatives/wa_resources/wa_shared/tipsheets/5Ws_of_cyberspace.cfm

RefDesk.com: http://refdesk.com/ How to do Research - The Kentucky Virtual Library:

http://www.kyvl.org/html/kids/homebase.html Soople: http://soople.com/ Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Some Useful Sites: Teachers

Ann Fagan’s Library - Education: http://pages.videotron.com/anke/education.htm Answers.com: Lesson Plans and Movie: http://www.teachers.answers.com/ Best Reference Sites:

http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/mars/marspubs/MARSBestRef2004.htm

Citation and Style Guides: http://library.concordia.ca/help/howto/citations.html - other

CMEC - Copyright - http://www.cmec.ca/copyright/indexe.stm Cyberschoolbus: http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/ Education Library: http://www.csu.edu.au/education/library.html LEARN - http://www.learnquebec.ca/en/content/pedagogy/cil/teach/teachinlit.html Media Awareness Network - Lesson Plans: http://www.media-awareness.

ca/english/teachers/index.cfm National Geographic: Educators - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/ SchoolNet Learning Resources - http://www.schoolnet.ca/home/e/

Google Tools for Educators

Google Earth: http://earth.google.com/ Google Moon: http://www.google.com/moon/

Google Sketchup 3D Software: http://sketchup.google.com/

Google Literacy Project - http://www.google.com/literacy/

Google Librarian Central - http://librariancentral.blogspot.com/

Google for Educators - http://www.google.com/educators/index.html

Google Teaching Tools - http://www.google.com/librariancenter/librarian_tools.html

Google for Educators Discussion Group -

http://groups.google.com/group/google-for-educators

Google Co-Op - (Create your own search engine) - http://www.google.com/coop/ Librarian’s e-library: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=015271347771663724636%3Acmwvisovdsg

Information Literacy in your classroom

Maureen BaronPortal Consultant

English Montreal School Board

[email protected]

Digital Generation Evolution

50 year olds learned that TV was part of their life 40 year olds learned that colour TV was part of their

life 30 year olds learned that a VCR was part of their life 20 year olds learned that the computer was part of

their life Teens learned that a cell phone was part of their life Preteens learned that an IPod was part of their life What will preschoolers learn is part of their life?

What to teach them….

How, when and why to use something that has not been invented yet

SkillsCompetenciesUnderstandingsRespectResponsibilityEthicsTransferable attitudes, knowledge and skills Information Literacy

When on-line, face to face or in print:

need to know how to evaluate information that is used exchanged created shared

The school should have answers to:

What and when are the students being taught Information Literacy?

What and when are the students being taught about responsible Internet use?

Information Literacy and the QEP

Cross Curricular Competencies Uses information

Broad Areas of Learning Personal identity and world view Health and well-being Personal and occupational planning Social relationships Environmental awareness Citizenship and community life Media literacy Consumer rights and responsibilities

Becomes an informed, responsible citizen

What are the kids doing on line?

Communicating: with friends, family or strangers Playing: by themselves, with friends, family or with strangers Learning: by themselves, with friends, family or with strangers Competing: with themselves, with friends, family or with

strangers Gambling, Banking, Downloading, Cyber bullying, Blogging,

Creating, Observing, Buying, Selling, Entertaining, Hanging out, Shopping, Swapping

Good digital citizen, Victim, Perpetrator, Participant, Voyeur, Lurker, Mastermind, Thief, Activist, Volunteer, Student, Teacher, Entrepreneur, Producer, Writer, Shopper, Consumer, Decision maker, Voter

They do it outside the classroom but bring it into the classroom

Text message Buddy list MySpace, Facebook Habbo Hotel POS, LOL, BTW Games (Runescape) Blog Webcams

Del.icio.us Cyber bully Store wish lists Chat rooms Homework Paper mills Email Download

HPV Vaccination

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Prevention and HPV Vaccine

www.google.ca search http://scholar.google.ca/ search Can you decode the URLs for the search

results?Does your daughter (sister, girlfriend,

niece, cousin) get vaccinated?

DNS Tools

http://member.dnsstuff.com/pages/tools.php How the tools work http://member.dnsstuff

.com/help/ WHOIS IP Information – city, countryAbuse Lookup

Classroom Lesson Ideas

Big 6Evaluating web sites

How to dowww.dhmo.org

Google – search for – www.google.com Link:www.emsb.qc.ca

Alan November

On-line Resources for You

Media Awareness Network www.media-awareness.ca

Information on Games www.thegamesforum.com/home.html

Jargon and Abbreviations Net Lingo http://www.netlingo.com/ Tech Dictionary http://www.techdictionary.com/chat.html Cyberbullying http://linetpro.bjeckesher.org/nodeweb.asp?

t=24173 http://www.cyberbullying.ca/ Stop web bullying now http://www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.

gov/index.asp?Area=webisodes&webisode=1

URLs in the Presentation

Free Poker Room http://www.thefreepokerroom.com/ You Tube http://www.youtube.com/ Craig’s List http://montreal.craigslist.ca/ Freecycle http://www.freecycle.org/groups/canada/ Runescape http://www.runescape.com/aff/miniclip/ Alan November

http://novemberlearning.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=27&Itemid=93

Information Literacy meets WEB 2.0

Sharon PetersPedagogical Consultant (ELA)

LEARN

[email protected]

What is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 is a term that refers to web-based applications that permit user-created content to be SIMPLY and EASILY published to the web for a worldwide audience.

Info Lit Meets Web 2.0

The Machine is Us/Using Us

Shift of Control.....

Web 2.0

Word on the street…

From Joyce Valenza’s Presentation, Changing the Questions / Changing the Culture

They are not as literate as we think


This is what they know….

A Powerful Combo


Moving to a New Age

CCCs then and now…

Before web 2.0CCC skills potentiallyaddressed

After web 2.0 CCC skills potentiallyaddressed

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QEP Cross-Curricular Competencies

Literacy is now about creating

“Literacy now includes the capacity to produce an information product that can successfully compete for attention”.

David Warlick

K12 Online Conference

Author of Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century

Action Research and SELA2

Research in the 21st century classroom is going to be more hands-on and participatory

Interviews easily facilitated by audio and video and posted for public viewing:

Ustream,Youtube (download with zamzar), Teachertube, Schooltube

Voicethread, Podcast People, Podomatic

QEP - Secondary English Language Arts Cycle 2

Other Research Tools

Creative Commons

Wanna Work Together?

Be Human

Opportunities to explore appropriate online behaviour

The Need for Better LESs

Learning and evaluation situations that ask our students to create and desseminate knowledge in new ways will demand higher order thinking skills.

Students will have to sift, filter and remix validated sources of information to present

their products in multimodes and multimedia.

What teachers should expect


Fostering a Culture of Integrity


Pathfinders

Joyce Valenza’s Resources:

Changing the Questions / Changing the Culture

Web 2.0 Meets Information Fluency

Copyright-Friendly and Copyleft Images and Sound (Mostly!) for Use in Media Projects and Web Pages, Blogs, Wikis, etc.

New tools for Now

Simple Wikipedia - good for ELL, young learners

Definr - superfast definitions Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary Google docs / Presentation / Buzzword -

facilitates collaboration Free wikispaces for educators - facilitates

collaboration, incredibly flexible tools that permit a number of other file types to easily embed

Wiki to Presentation

You can find this presentation at

http://qpat07.wikispaces.com/

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