Information Literacy: Navigating & Evaluating Today's Media, All Grades
Published by: englishcology (Karma: 4552.53 ) on 26 March 2009 | Views: 1752
We live in a world of information. Learning how to handle it all has become a lifelong task. Teachers and students benefit from being able to locate, evaluate, and use information. To that purpose, this book was created, with explanations, activities, and activity sheets to support the harnessing and understanding of information.
About This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Part 1: READY— Information Is Everywhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Chapter 1: Introduction to Information Literacy . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Activity: Information Sources, Systems, and Devices Time Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Activity: Information Literacy Then & Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Chapter 2: Information: Where Does It Come From? . . . . . . . 21 Visual Literacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Why Visual Literacy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Activity: Pictures and Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Activity: What Do You See? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 TV-Viewing Data Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 TV-Viewing Data Sheet Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Activity: TV Humor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 TV Humor Activity Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 TV Humor Activity Sheet Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Activity: TV Ads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 TV Ads Activity Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 TV Ads Activity Sheet Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Websites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Checklist for an Information Web Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Activity: If It’s on the Web, It Must Be True . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Website Data Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Website Data Sheet Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Activity: Five Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Five Criteria Activity Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Five Criteria Activity Sheet Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 4 #50554—Information Literacy © Shell Education Part 2: SET— Using Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Chapter 3: Good Question! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Grazing the Net: Raising a Generation of Free-Range Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Educational Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Bloom’s Taxonomy “Revised” Key Words, Model Questions, & Instructional Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Asking Good Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Activity: What Is the Question? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Question Activity Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Activity: What Do They Really Mean? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Assumptions Activity Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Chapter 4: Organizing Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Activity: Graphic Organizer Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Activity: Storyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Chapter 5: Where Did That Come From? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Copyright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Fair Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Creative Commons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 The Educator’s Guide to Copyright and Fair Use . . . . . . . . . 112 Activity: The Copyright Quiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Activity: Student Copyright Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Copyright Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Citing Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Activity: Who You Gonna Call? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Permission Request Activity Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Activity: Citing Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Citing Sources Activity Sheet—MLA Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Citing Sources Activity Sheet—APA Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 © Shell Education #50554—Information Literacy 5 Chapter 6: Search Techniques and Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Four NETS for Better Searching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Search Strategies Activity Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Chapter 7: The World of Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Using Primary Sources in the Classroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Lesson Suggestions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Activity: Word Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Word Card Template and Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Activity: Library Linkup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Library Information Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Library Information Sheet Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Part 3: GO!— Harnessing Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Chapter 8: It’s a 2.0 World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Online Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Netiquette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Cyber Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Cyber Bullying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Focus on Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Blogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Wikis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Podcasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Other Social-Networking Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Activity: Web 2.0 Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Chapter 9: Developing and Evaluating Multimedia Projects . . 193 Project Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Project Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Activity: Developing a Project-Based Learning Project . . . . . 202 Project-Based Learning Activity Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Activity: Creating a Project-Based Learning Rubric . . . . . . . . 205 Evaluation Rubric Activity Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Evaluation Rubric Activity Sheet Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 6 #50554—Information Literacy © Shell Education Part 4: RESOURCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 Print Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 Websites by Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Specialized Search Engines and Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 Directories Especially for Educators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 Search Engines and Databases Not Just for Educators . . . . . . 224 The Copyright Quiz Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers . . . . . . . . . . 230 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
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