Contempory Literacy

Year 2 : Module 2

Sign-in and Session Starter (5 Min)
Tink/Pair/Share - "How is researching and writting a report today different from when you were a student?" "What challenges do students face when researching and writing reports?"

Session Goals (10 Min)
What are literacy skills?
How can literacy skills improve teacher and student use of information sources?

Defining Information Literacy (45 min)
Take this quiz: http://www.anovember.com/Default.aspx?tabid=159&type=art&site=181&parentid=56
After your done, you can check here to see how you did: http://www.anovember.com/Default.aspx?tabid=159&type=art&site=180&parentid=56
Another Visual Quiz: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/tests/hoaxphototest.html
Check out these sites: http://www.anovember.com/default.aspx?tabid=159&type=art&site=179&parentid=56

Locating and Accessing Infomation (60 min)
Skills for Searching links:

• Search Engines http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech222.shtml
• Search Engines http://pandia.com/goalgetter/2.html
• Boolean Operators: http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech225.shtml
• Boolean Operators: http://pandia.com/goalgetter/4.html
• Four NETS-Search Tips: http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm
• "Near" operator: http://www.pandia.com/goalgetter/6.html
• Phrases: http://www.pandia.com/goalgetter/5.html
• Truncation and Wildcards: http://www.pandia.com/goalgetter/9.html
• Field Searching: http://www.pandia.com/goalgetter/11.html
• Tutorial Web Basics 101: http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml

Elementary:

• Lewis and Clark
• Chris Van Allsburg (or any other author)
• Polygons
• Amphibians

Secondary

• World War II
• Shakespeare
• Famous Mathematicians
• Amphibians

Evaluating Information (75 min)
Teacher vs Student perspectives

• What does it mean to "evaluate" information?
• What skills are needed to be able to evaluate information?
• What criteria do teachers/students use to evaluate a website?

Web Evaluation Rubric

• Information Literacy http://www.anovember.com/default.aspx?tabid=160
• Evaluating Webpages: http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/%7Espjvweb/evalwebteach.html
• Websites to Validate: http://www.anovember.com/Default.aspx?tabid=159&type=art&site=179&parentid=56
• Critical Evaluation Information: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html
• Evaluation Rubrics for websites: http://www.siec.k12.in.us/%7Ewest/edu/evaltr.htm
• Content Evaluation: http://www.cyberbee.com/content.pdf

Closing

Teaching Information-Literacy Skills to Students form

Go-around one idea they can share with other teachers in their school