January 6, 2009
TECHNOS QUARTERLY Spring 2001 Vol. 10 No. 1
Information Literacy Resources
Sidebar for the Information Literacy: Where Do We Go from Here?
ONLINE
The Big6™ Skills Information Problem-Solving Approach
http://www.big6.com/
Provides lesson plans, conferences, and other resources on how to teach information literacy across the curriculum. The first conference on information literacy is scheduled for August 2001.
Center for Media Literacy
This organization has a special emphasis on the different forms of information
but shares the core concerns of accessing, evaluating, and using information:
The heart of media literacy is informed inquiry. Through a four-step
“inquiry” process of Awareness … Analysis …Reflection …Action,
media literacy helps young people acquire an empowering set of “navigational”
skills that include the ability to:
- Access information from a variety of sources
- Analyze and explore how messages are “constructed” (whether print, verbal, visual, or multimedia)
- Evaluate media's explicit and implicit messages against one's own ethical, moral, and/or democratic principles
- Express or create their own messages using a variety of media tools
Compton's Encyclopedia Online
The Teacher's Guide associated with this product includes instructions and
detailed lesson plans for teaching information literacy.
International Society for Technology in Education's National Educational
Technology Standards Project (NETS)
http://cnets.iste.org/
The NETS Project creates standards, curriculum, and assessment tools for integrating technology in the K-12 classroom. The work of this group includes information literacy lessons and standards.
Questioning.org
http://questioning.org
Educator Jamie McKenzie designed this resource to help teachers help students learn how to ask good questions, the key to successful research.
STATE PROGRAMS AND MATERIALS
Utah
http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/library/core/Info_literacy.htm
Utah integrates the Big6 into its curriculum.
Maryland
Project Better: Information Literacy http://mdk12.org/practices/good_instruction/projectbetter/information_literacy/index.html
This report by Maryland educators summarizes a lot of the thinking and development they have done on standards and curriculum development for information literacy.
Standards for School Library Media Programs in Maryland
(1987, revised 2000 Maryland State Department of Education)
http://Mdk12.org/mspp/standards/index.html
These Maryland standards contain not only the goals but also a blueprint for teaching information literacy across the curriculum and methods for assessing educators' abilities to teach these skills.
Wisconsin
Information & Technology Literacy Standards Matrix
http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/dltcl/eis/pubsales/index.html
This publication is designed to help educators integrate information and technology literacy into the subject areas.
PUBLICATIONS
Information Literacy & Information Skills Instruction: Applying Research
to Practice in the School Library Media Center, by Nancy P. Thomas (June
1999)
Fostering Information Literacy: A Strategic Plan to Integrate Information Literacy Skills into the Curriculum, by Helen M. Thompson and Susan A. Henley (Libraries Unlimited, January 2000)
Building Information Literacy Using Technology: A Practical Guide for Schools & Libraries, by Roxanne Baxter Mendrinos (Libraries Unlimited, February 2001)
Developing An Information Literacy Program K-12: A How-to-Do-It Manual and CD ROM Package, Mary Jo Langhorne, Editor (Iowa City Community School District: Neal Schuman, Publisher, October 1998)
Information Literacy: Educating Children for the 21st Century, by Patrica S. Breivik and J.A. Senn (National Education Association, August 1998)
Information Literacy: Search Strategies, Tools & Resources (ST&R) and Weblines, by Zorana Ekcegovac (InfoEN Associates, January 2000)
Beyond Technology: Questioning, Research, and the Information-Literate School, by Jamie McKenzie (The Twiggs Company, January 2000)
Teaching Information Literacy Skills, by Patricia Iannuzzi, et al. (Allyn & Bacon, October 22, 1998)
Student Learning in the Information Age, by Patricia S. Breivik (Oryx Press, November 1997)
From Library Skills to Information Literacy: A Handbook for the 21st Century, California Media and Library Educators Association (Hi Willow Research and Publishing: Castle Rock, Colorado, 1994)
Information Literacy: Learning How to Learn (1991), published by the American Association of School Librarians. (A compilation of articles from School Library Media Quarterly on the role of the school library media program in helping students develop critical thinking skills. 83 p. $12. #7535-6)
Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning (1998), published by the American Association of School Librarians. (A companion publication to Information Power designed for distribution to teachers, principals, parents, school board members, and administrators. 48 p. $20. #0-8389-3471-4.)
Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning (1998), produced by Great Plains Network with the American Association of School Librarians. (A 15-min. video designed for presentation to teachers, parents, and other school stakeholders in which student-activity scenarios bring to life each of the nine information literacy standards. $39.95. #0-8389-3492-7.)