Lee-Anne Patterson's List: Information Literacy Sites

Article by Jamie McKenzie on the different types of literacies and skills needed in each

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Jamie_McKenzie literacy media literacy FNO 21stcenturyskills on 2009-03-06 and saved by 5 people

This morning I met with a PLC team at my school, as an observer, while they discussed a research project our juniors do. It is an advocacy project, where thay take a current event, view both sides, and "advocate" for one side. Their method of research is to view articles from library data bases and synthesize the information. The idea is to gather info throughout the semester and have the project culminate in a major research paper.

Needless to say, I have other ideas for them.

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blog research 21stCenturySkills digital_learning literacy on 2008-12-19

Wes Fryer post about differentiated instruction, revised Blooms Taxonomy and 21st Century Learning

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differentiation education research teaching Wes Fryer on 2008-12-10 and saved by 6 people

Complying with, and teaching young people about, copyright in an educational setting often feels burdensome. That's because copyright laws were not designed to facilitate the sort of sharing and collaborating that has become widespread in the digital age. The innovative non-profit organization Creative Commons turns the process around, making the concept of protecting and sharing work online not onerous but positive. We asked Ahrash Bissell, Executive Director of Creative Commons' ccLearn division, for a primer:

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creativecommons copyright teaching technology techlearning Information Literacy on 2008-10-15 and saved by 3 people

article on how stuff on Myspace can be blown out of proportion

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YouTube censorship on 2008-08-26

research help centre

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education Information Literacy on 2008-08-22

cartoon site to create and share cartoons online

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web2.0 comics cartoon Writing on 2008-08-15 and saved by 113 people

There remains a larger challenge for schools: how to develop a new generation of knowledgeable digital citizens who can operate in the unregulated online world.

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techlearning blog technology blogging Information Literacy on 2008-05-28

The world wide web is a modern miracle - a source of boundless information; a publishing place for budding authors, musicians, movie makers and opiners. The problem is that when any old Joe can contribute to the global information bank, how can we trust w

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social-issues internet Information Literacy on 2008-02-15 and saved by 6 people

good site for summarising and taking notes

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notetaking teaching Information Literacy on 2007-10-17

video on information literacy - defines and gives a process DISCOVER

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teaching video Information Literacy on 2007-09-24 and saved by 5 people

Cornell University Library evaluation criteria

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evaluatingwebsites internet web education Information Literacy on 2007-06-27 and saved by 42 people

site with evaluation criteria and links to websites for students to evaluate.

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EvaluatingWebSites web Information Literacy on 2007-06-27 and saved by 67 people

site for evaluating websites - good

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teaching technology Web thinking evaluatingwebsites Information Literacy on 2007-06-27 and saved by 50 people

Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? Then you've come to the right place. By entering in a URL in the text field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires

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web2.0 Information Literacy on 2008-07-23 and saved by 1469 people